Aaital Khosla

Aaital Khosla

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Aaital Khosla December 3, 1993 Chandigarh, India
Hometown	Chandigarh
Residence	New Delhi, India
Alma mater	St. Stephen's School, Chandigarh MCM DAV College for Women
Years active	2015 - present
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Title(s)	Glamanand Supermodel India 2015 (Glamanand Miss India Earth 2015) Palaash National Beauty Pageant 2015
Major competition(s)	Glamanand Supermodel India 2015 (Winner) (Glamanand Miss India Earth 2015) (Miss Internet) (Miss Eco-Tourism) (Miss Productive Beauty) Palaash National Beauty Pageant 2015 (Winner) Palaash National Beauty Pageant Chandigarh (1st Runner Up) Femina Miss India Delhi 2015 (Finalist) Miss Earth 2015 (Unplaced)

Aaital Khosla (born 3 December 1993) is an Indian model and beauty queen. She was crowned Glamanand Supermodel India in the year 2015 and represented India at Miss Earth 2015 pageant held in Vienna, Austria.

Personal life and Career

Early life and education

Aaital was born in Chandigarh. She attended St. Stephen's School, Chandigarh and went to MCM DAV College for Women for further studies.

Career and beauty pageants

In the year 2015, she competed in Femina Miss India Delhi contest held at Hyatt Regency, Gurgaon in the month of December 2015 and placed in the Top 6 and won "Miss Fashion Icon" sub-award.^[1] The same year she participated in Palash National Beauty Pageant Chandigarh 2015 contest and was declared 1st Runner Up. Later, she got entry to Palaash National Beauty Pageant 2015 and was crowned the eventual winner.

Later, in the month of November she competed at the second edition of Glamanand Supermodel India, the national preliminary for Miss Earth pageant in India and was crowned the winner at the conclusion of the final event held on November 4, 2015 at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Gurgaon.A part from winning the main title she also won three special awards at the pageant, Miss Internet, Miss Eco-Tourism and Miss Productive Beauty. She succeeded Mohini Raaj Puniya as Glamanand Supermodel India and Alankrita Sahai as Miss Earth India.^[2][3][4]

Aaital represented India at the Miss Earth 2015 pageant held in Marx Halle, Vienna, Austria.^[5][6][7]

As a Miss Earth delegate, an advocacy is a must. When she was asked about her advocacy as Miss Earth, she answered via Miss Earth official website, "My environmental advocacy is to make the world greener and encourage people and the government for 3R i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Moreover I want to encourage people to avoid cars once a week and this will help the nature a lot. I have been to pollution effected places and the demise I experienced pushed to act for it."

Controversy

In November 2015, Miss Earth India's video representing Aaital went into a big controversy as the videography team showed Mount Everest as an attempt to showcase Himalaya. It became viral and was taken down within 24 hours and a new video was uploaded. It was cleared by the national director Nikhil Anand that the mistake was done was the videography team and the video was taken down as soon as the mistake was realised. She later apologised from her Facebook page. ^[8]

References

1. "Aaital Khosla". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 6 Nov 2015.
2. "Miss Earth India 2015 is Aaital Khosla". missosology.info.
3. "Aaital Khosla crowned Miss Earth India 2015". angelopedia.com. Retrieved 6 Nov 2015.
4. "Aaital Khosla wins Miss Earth India 2015. She is National Director of Miss Intercontinental India which is Perk Events' Property in 2016. [Result]". thegreatpageantcommunity.com. Retrieved 6 Nov 2015.
5. Locsin, Joel (2014). "Pinay bags Miss Earth 2014 title". GMA Network. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
6. Жигарева, Гертруда (2014). "Россиянка получила титул "Мисс огонь" на конкурсе "Мисс Земля" (in Russian)". Moskovskij Komsomolets. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
7. "Miss Earth 2014 Crown Goes To Miss Philippines". Travelers Today. 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
8. https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/miss-earth-india-apologises-to-nepal/

External links

• Aaital Khosla at Miss Earth official website
• Aaital Khosla @ Miss Earth India Official website with past MEI winners
• Femina Miss India Delhi
• Glamanand Supermodel India 2015