Manasi is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She performed her Rangapravesha (maiden solo performance) at the age of thirteen under the tutelage of Smt.Narmada. She has given numerous performances in India and abroad. She has danced in theatre productions such as ‘Nadajyoti Muthuswami Dikshitar’ and ‘Devi Upasaka Shyama Shastry’.
Manasi has composed music for and lent vocal support to many dance programmes, productions and Arangetrams. She has sung for performances by prominent dancers such as Nirupama Rajendra, Shama and Sanjay Shantaram, Vani Ganapathy, Bharatanjali troupe of B. Bhanumathi, Praveen Kumar and many others.
She is often invited as a guest lecturer at IIM Bangalore to give presentations on Indian Arts. She has conducted sessions on ‘Indian Performing Arts- a journey through emotions’ for various visiting delegations from Sri Lanka, Spain, USA and other countries
Manasi is a Fellow of the Melton Foundation, an international network of people.
She has given presentations on Indian Culture at the Annual Symposium of the Foundation in Germany.
Manasi has always excelled academically. She is the recipient of the All India Talent Scholarship, New Delhi. She secured 1st Rank in 10th Standard ICSE from Bishop Cotton Girls’ School. She received the Singapore Airlines Scholarship to study Pre-University in Raffles Junior College, Singapore. She has been recognized as one among the top ten students across all the IIMs and has consequently been awarded the Aditya Birla Scholarship.
Manasi did her summer internship during her MBA course at Goldman Sachs and Co. in New York. After her MBA, she has worked as a Credit and Sales Manager at Standard Chartered Bank in Bangalore.
