User:Praveenvyes/Geetanjali Nagpal

Gitanjali Nagpal is an Indian super model in 90’s who ended her career in failure leading her to drug addiction and later found begging in a market in South Delhi. She was a designer turned model who once walked over ramp with Miss Universe 1994, Sushmita Sen, in the 90s and others of same class. Geetanjali, daughter of a naval officer, who completed her schooling from Mount Carmel and her higher studies from the prestigious Lady Sri Ram College. She studied fashion design at the South Delhi Polytechnic and in 1990 she flew to Mumbai for taking modeling full time, but her career failed to take off. Initially Nagpal got some prestigious assignments including Lakme, but she could not make it out in the preceding years. Nagpal went to Nepal with her boyfriend, but things did not work, and she then went to Goa where she got close to a Britisher. She came back to Delhi with the Britisher and lived with him in Paharganj and turned herself down, tried to live on drugs. After finding begging on the streets in Delhi, she was rescued from the pavements by a team from Delhi Commission for Women and had undergone treatment for fear psychosis at the VIMHANS Hospital in New Delhi.—