Hailing from Delhi, Sanjana Vij is an MTech graduate in Biotechnology from Amity University and was working in a multinational company in Hyderabad when she decided to participate in beauty pageants.
The 23-year-old started her journey with the pageant when she participated in the fbb Campus Princess pageant in 2016 while in college.
Vij then represented Telangana in the Femina Miss India 2019 and won big in the preliminary rounds. She bagged Miss Smasher for playing badminton in the sports category of the pageant.
The blue-eyed beauty, born on March 23, 1995, also won Miss Spectacular Eyes in the preliminary rounds.
She finished fourth in the grand finale of the pageant, falling behind Shreya Sankar (Femina Miss India United Continents 2019), Shivani Jadhav (Femina Miss Grand India 2019) and Suman Rao (Femina Miss India World 2019)
Her interest lies in shooting, dancing, sprinting, playing basketball and acting. She said that she harboured her interests in shooting and sprinting as an NCC cadet back in school.
Vij is also known to post witty caption on her Instagram posts. For this photo, she captions, "When somebody tells me to stand at ease."
Another of her witty captions, reads, "Yet another day, mom came and left without switching the fan back on (sic)."
She captions this photo, "You're not born with a fixed amount of resilience, you build it. Don't rush to recover, experience the failure. Don't hide sadness, express it. Only then you can come back stronger. Don't try to control the winds, adjust your sails to it."
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