Manasvi Mamgai

Early life

Manasvi was born in Delhi but her roots are from Uttarakhand. She did her schooling in Chandigarh. She was raised by her mother Prabha Mamgai. Manasvi was a spectacular dancer and skating champion which made her win multiple achievement awards in dancing and skating. She also bagged the Dancer of the Year Trophy awarded by the Chandigarh Art Theatre and the Best Running Trophy in V.L Shah Memorial All-India Open Skating championships. She got formal training in various dance forms like Bharat Natyam, Contemporary, Kathak and Belly dance because of her keen interest dancing. She was an assistant editor of her school magazine. She is very passionate about acting and adventure sports like horse riding. She loves travelling and exploring different places.

Modelling career

Manasvi won Elite Model Look India in 2006 and debuted at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week where she was chosen as one of 16 "New Faces Going Places". She also won the Miss Tourism International 2008 held in Malaysia on December 31, 2008. She opened the Miss World Finale in 2010 in the Dances of the world. It was the very first time that India graced the Dances of World stage. She won the Miss Popular title in the contest through voting. She was crowned with the title of Femina Miss India 2010 winning four subtitles including

Since then she has walked the ramp for many top Indian designers and shot campaigns for Fair & Lovely, Tarun Tahiliani, Manish Malhotra, Sunsilk and many others. She also graced the covers of top Indian and International magazines like Vogue, Elle, Femina, Verve, Cosmopolitan, etc. She walked the ramp as the showstopper at Karleo’s show at India Beach Fashion Week in March 2017 held in Goa.

Political career

Manasvi is the current ambassador of RHC, Republican Hindu Coalition, which is the brainchild of her Soul-father Mr. Shalabh Kumar. RHC’s main mission is to create a strong Hindu voice and strengthen Indo¬-American relations in a real substantive way instead of just optics. Being a Trump supporter and popularly known as Indian Ivanka Trump, Manasvi actively campaigned for Donald Trump during the elections with her father Shalabh Kumar. She has been vocal about supporting Trump and worked effortlessly for the RHC campaigns during United States presidential election, 2016.

Ambassador to Republican Hindu Coalition

Shalabh and Manasvi put together the “Humanity United against Terror" a Bollywood Charity Concert which took place on 15 October 2016 at NJ Exposition center in Edison, New Jersey. The concert was addressed by President-Elect Donald Trump with a gathering of more than 9,000 Hindu-Americans. She handled all the organizational activities of the concert and even performed in it with forty Bollywood celebrities including Malaika Arora Khan, Prabhu Deva, Sophie Choudhary, etc. Trump lit the traditional Hindu ceremonial Diya and the entire 9000 strong crowd went wild. It was during this event, that the now-famous one-liner “Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar” was coined. The proceeds of ticket sales & sponsorships of the concert were given to victims of terror in the world, particularly Kashmiri Pundits and Bangladeshi Hindus.

Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar
Manasvi campaigned heavily supporting then President-elect Donald Trump. While campaigning for Trump pre-elections, she travelled alongside her father and worked with RHC in the battleground states like Florida to educate people and spread awareness about Trump’s pro-India and pro-Hindu/Indian American policies to help them pick the right candidate and see through the media’s bias. She appeared on several interviews across US & Indian Media such as Off the Cuff at NDTV, Zee TVUSA, TV9 Telugu, Miss Malini, Zee News etc sending the message out to Hindu-Americans on why one should vote Trump over Hillary.

Support for Donald Trump

Under her father’s influence, Manasvi is politically active and often accompanies him at various meetings, concerts and events of RHC. She spent a lot of time with Donald Trump and both of them found another connection - Manasvi as Miss India had competed in the Miss World competition and Trump owned that pageant at one time. In fact, Trump has nicknamed her as “Bollywood”. She is working actively rubbing shoulders and discussing policies with major politicians including Mike Pence, Vice President of USA and Paul Ryan, Speaker of USA, House of Representatives.

While campaigning for Trump pre-elections, she travelled alongside her father and worked with RHC in the battleground states like Florida to educate people and spread awareness about Trump’s pro-India and pro-Hindu/Indian American policies to help them pick the right candidate and see through the media’s bias.

Eric Trump Visit to Hindu Temple
Manasvi organized a visit to a Hindu temple for Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump in Orlando, FL in order for him to take blessings from the Hindu Deity prior to election results. Eric’s visit to the Hindu temple in Orlando was a resounding success where he himself performed the traditional “Aarti” and prayed there for his father’s victory along with Kumar and Manasvi. He ended the visit by saying: “I am honored to have been adopted by you, the Hindus.”

Both the “Ab ki Bar Trump Sarkar” and “Eric Trump at Hindu temple” videos went viral on digital media cumulatively garnering over 2,000,000 views on You tube in just a matter of days with both American & Indian media houses covering the news extensively.

Active involvement in President Trump’s pre-inaugural celebrations
Manasvi headlined the biggest performance at Trump’s pre-inaugural Welcome Celebrations, with Bollywood singing sensation Mika Singh which was held at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. She led over a dozen Indian dancers performing to some of the popular Bollywood numbers including the Oscar-winning "Jai Ho" of A R Rahman., enthralling several thousands of people gathered for the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The group dance included several other popular Indian songs including "Jumme ki Raat Hai". The Indian cultural show ended with the appearance of Republican Hindu Coalition chairman Shalabh Kumar appearing on the stage and waving at the audience. The live event was played out in front of 800,000 people and was telecast to over 2 billion viewers worldwide.

Manasvi attended all the Inaugural functions including the Trump’s VIP Candle Light Dinner at Union Station with the First Family along with various high-level donors mixed with his Cabinet nominees and members of Congress. Manasvi was spotted with various eminent personalities like Ivanka Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, Melania Trump, Donald Trump etc.

Other works

Shalabh and Manasvi, the father-daughter duo, were interviewed for the Off the Cuff show by Shekhar Gupta on NDTV India to discuss various benefits for Hindu Americans after Trump won the Presidential elections. Her contribution towards getting the voice of Hindus heard and developing the Indo-US relationship is commendable. As an ambassador of RHC, Manasvi delivered a great speech in protest against CNN Reza Aslan’s show ‘Believer’ in March 2017 at Chicago. Indian Americans agitated against the show describing it as racist and dangerously anti-immigrant. They alleged that it portrayed Hinduism in negative light.

Shalabh Kumar’s Soul Daughter (Dharmaputri)

Manasvi is the soul daughter (dharmaputri) of renowned politician, entrepreneur, engineer, community activist and founder of RHC Shalabh Kumar. Kumar’s friend and spiritual mentor, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of Art of Living Foundation, who offered to host a full blown fabulous ceremony at his ashram in Bangalore, formalized the soul-relationship in the Hindu tradition. Shalabh describes Manasvi as a daughter who adds another dimension in his life by enhancing his interests in his own Punjabi culture.

Manasvi describes her father Shalabh as one of the smartest and most inspirational person she has ever met. She considers him as her encyclopedia, a man with a great foresight. His love for United States and passion to empower Hindu-Americans is what captivates her the most.