Archana Nair
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Archana Appukuttan Nair is an American-born Indian who is currently a third year undergraduate student at Stanford University
and the winner of Miss Kerala 2009.
, USA. Archana is of Malayali
origin, with her parents from Thiruvananthapuram
(Trivandrum), India. Her father, Dr. Appukuttan Ramakrishna Nair, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato, while her mother, Latha Nair, is a software engineer. She is the only child in the family.
Archana Nair attended Eden Prairie Senior High School, Minnesota, where she did her schooling and graduated in 2008. She is currently a third year undergraduate student at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA and is majoring in biomechanical engineering. She loves dark chocolate and relies on her sessions of dancing to keep her fit. She is actively participating in many groups at Stanford University, including Dil Se, an Indian Bollywood dance group and Noopur, a classical bharatnatyam group.
Archana started learning dance at an early age. She loves dancing and is trained well in the three classical dance forms of southern India - Mohiniyattom, Bharatnatyam, and Kuchipudi
.
She studied Mohiniyattom under the guidance of Girija Chandran (Regatta Cultural Society) and Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi from Mydhili (Midhilalaya Dance Academy), both in Trivandrum.
n state of Kerala
on August 5, 2009. Earlier she had held various titles including Miss India Teen America and Miss Fokana, and also came second runner up at the Miss India USA 2008.
Having already participated in many shows and competitions and taking modelling assignments, the success at Miss Kerala 2009 is bringing several modelling assignments her way.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and the winner of Miss Kerala 2009.
Early life and background
Archana Nair was born on January 15, 1990, in Mankato, MinnesotaMinnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, USA. Archana is of Malayali
Malayali
Malayali is the term used to refer to the native speakers of Malayalam, originating from the Indian state of Kerala...
origin, with her parents from Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...
(Trivandrum), India. Her father, Dr. Appukuttan Ramakrishna Nair, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato, while her mother, Latha Nair, is a software engineer. She is the only child in the family.
Archana Nair attended Eden Prairie Senior High School, Minnesota, where she did her schooling and graduated in 2008. She is currently a third year undergraduate student at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA and is majoring in biomechanical engineering. She loves dark chocolate and relies on her sessions of dancing to keep her fit. She is actively participating in many groups at Stanford University, including Dil Se, an Indian Bollywood dance group and Noopur, a classical bharatnatyam group.
Archana started learning dance at an early age. She loves dancing and is trained well in the three classical dance forms of southern India - Mohiniyattom, Bharatnatyam, and Kuchipudi
Kuchipudi
Kuchipudi is a Classical Indian dance form Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form, it acquired the...
.
She studied Mohiniyattom under the guidance of Girija Chandran (Regatta Cultural Society) and Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi from Mydhili (Midhilalaya Dance Academy), both in Trivandrum.
Achievements
In 1999 Archana got her "Nritha Rani" title and won the "Kanaka Chilanka" during the inter-state festival held in Chicago. In Fokana 2002 (Federations Of Kerala Associations in North America) talent competitions, she got her "Kalathilakom" for scoring maximum points in different types of dances and also in speech. In Fokana 2004 (New Jersey), she was the first prize winner in dance category and won "Miss Fokana" title.Miss Kerala 2009
Archana Nair is the winner of Miss Kerala 2009 a beauty contest held in the IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
on August 5, 2009. Earlier she had held various titles including Miss India Teen America and Miss Fokana, and also came second runner up at the Miss India USA 2008.
Having already participated in many shows and competitions and taking modelling assignments, the success at Miss Kerala 2009 is bringing several modelling assignments her way.