Vangmayi Parakala is an Indian journalist. She is the daughter of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of India.
Wiki/Biography
Vangmayi Parakala was born on Monday, May 20, 1991 (age 32; as of 2023) in Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. Her zodiac sign is Taurus.
Vangmayi Parakala and Nirmala Sitharaman’s childhood photos
After completing her education, she attended Delhi University where she received her BA and MA in English Literature. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she moved to the United States to attend Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications, where she earned a master’s degree in journalism; she specialized in magazine writing and photojournalism.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: dark brown
Photo of Vangmayi Parakala with her maternal grandfather
family and caste
Vangmayi Parakala belongs to a Hindu Brahmin family.
Parents and siblings
Her father, Parakala Prabhakar, is a politician, political economist, social worker and television presenter who served as communications advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government from 2014 to 2018 . Her mother, Nirmala Sitharaman, is the finance minister of India. She has no siblings.
Nirmala Sitharaman with husband and daughter
husband and children
Her husband Pratik Doshi works as an officer on special duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and is considered a close friend of Narendra Modi. She married him on June 7, 2023, in Bangalore, Karnataka. According to sources, their wedding ceremony was attended only by close associates of the bride and groom, with no celebrities in attendance. Their wedding was also attended by prophets from Udupi Adamaru Mutt who came to bless the bride and groom. The wedding follows the Vedic rituals of Adamaru Mutt.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s daughter’s wedding photos
religion
Vangmayi Parakala follows Hinduism.
Profession
After completing her formal education, she started working as a journalist with the national newspaper The Hindu. After a spell at the newspaper, she joined Mint as a senior reporter, publishing articles on lifestyle, arts and technology. Her articles have also appeared in The New Indian Express, The Voice of Fashion, Literary Hub, Hindustan Times and Pacific Standard.
Facts/Trivia
- Her name is also Parakala Vangmayi.
- She is a “hodophile” (someone who likes to travel) and has been to many countries.
- Vangmayi Parakala is passionate about her hobby of reading.
- Nirmala Sitharaman poses with a female officer of the Indian Army in 2018. The photo was shared on social media claiming that the woman is Nirmala’s daughter. But it was later discovered that the information was false and the female police officer in the photo was not Nirmala’s daughter.
- In November 2018, she was selected as a member of the Out of Eden Walk and the National Geographic Society Slow Journalism Workshop. During the workshop, she was mentored by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek and visual journalist Arati Kumar Rao.
- In December 2021, Vangmayi Parakala wrote a personal essay on the cultural trend of keeping cats as pets and published it in the book “Cat People” published by Simon & Schuster India.
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