Wangmai Parakala is an Indian journalist. She is the daughter of India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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Wiki/Biography
Wangmai Parakala was born on Monday, 20 May 1991 (age 32; as of 2023) in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. His zodiac sign is Taurus.
A childhood photo of Wangmai Parakala with Nirmala Sitharaman
After graduation, he enrolled at the University of Delhi, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English Literature. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she moved to the United States of America, where she enrolled at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and earned a Master of Science in Journalism; He specializes in magazine writing and photojournalism.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: dark brown
Photo of Wangmai Parakala with her maternal grandfather
family and caste
Wangmai Parakala belongs to a Hindu Brahmin family.
parents and siblings
Her father, Parakala Prabhakar, is a politician, politician, social worker and television presenter who served as a communications advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government from 2014 to 2018. His mother, Nirmala Sitharaman, is the Finance Minister of India. He has no siblings.
Nirmala Sitharaman with her 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 confidant of Narendra Modi. She married him on 7 June 2023 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. According to sources, their marriage ceremony was attended only by close associates of the bride and groom and not by famous personalities. Their marriage was also attended by visitors from Udupi Adamaru Mutt who came to bless the bride and groom. The wedding followed the Vedic rituals of Adamaru Mutt.
Nirmala Sitharaman daughter wedding picture
religion
Wangmai Parakala follows Hinduism.
Career
After completing his formal education, he started working as a journalist in the national newspaper The Hindu. After a stint with the newspaper, he joined Mint, where he works as a senior correspondent and publishes articles on lifestyle, arts and technology. Her articles have also been featured in The New Indian Express, Voice of Fashion, Literary Hub, Hindustan Times and Pacific Standard.
Facts/Trivia
- He was also called Parakala Wangmai.
- He is a hodophile (one who loves to travel a lot) and has visited many countries.
- Wangmai Parakala is passionate about her hobby of reading.
- In 2018, Nirmala Sitharaman posed for a photo with a female Indian Army officer. The photo was circulated on social media saying that the woman was Nirmala’s daughter. However, it was later revealed that this information was false and the female officer in the photo was not Nirmala’s daughter.
- In November 2018, she was selected to participate in the Out of Eden Walk and the National Geographic Society’s Slow Journalism Workshop. During the workshop, he received guidance from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek and visual journalist Arati Kumar Rao.
- In December 2021, Wangmai Parakala wrote a personal essay on the cultural trend of having cats as pets and it was published in a book titled Cat People by Simon & Schuster India.
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