NINETEEN-year-old Ramiesa Trishana Ganesh has big plans to enter the Miss World or Miss Universe pageants in future, and she is aiming to become a pageant coach so that she can help young girls to develop the sort of self-confidence that they need in life.
A delegate in the Miss Guyana Teen Scholarship Pageant in 2019, for which she won the Best Ballroom Dancing, Ganesh hails from Tuschen Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara, and believes her interest in this industry comes from growing up among family members who liked to dance.
She also took classes from her best friend in school and has learnt since then what it is like to perform in front of an audience. Having developed that confidence, she started participating in school programmes and competitions.
So well did she progress that Ganesh is now the co-founder, secretary, props manager and dance teacher of Tandavas Performing Arts founded by Tagepaul Sooknanan and also co-founded by Darshana Ramotar.

Tandavas is a non-profit organisation where the founders seek to inspire and help their performers reach their full potentials and invest in the youths of society so that they can have a better education for a better tomorrow.

A current delegate in the Miss India Worldwide Guyana pageant, Ganesh is also a teacher at the Islamic school, Qayyim Academy. She believes strongly that young people should seek to advance themselves academically, and said she wants to be able to do her bit to help them.
In fact, her platform in the ‘Miss India’ pageant is Education. “I believe it is the invisible crown every individual should wear. My focus revolves around children who live in poverty prevalent areas and do not have access to education. It is my objective to not only use my voice but take actions in helping these children in as many ways as possible,” Ganesh told Buzz this week.
She added: “I believe ability is the hidden tool that is unknown until the mind proves itself worthy; we are capable of anything once we have a positive mentality.” She

knows the challenges associated with not being able to afford to attend school and said she wants to be there for children who may be worse off than her today. Through Tandavas, small charity drives are organised to help children with school supplies.
Ganesh, whose other interests include dancing, acting, martial arts, yoga, and artistic painting, is an advocate for body positivity.
“I have been approached by young women who believe their bodies are too imperfect to follow their dreams in pageantry. I have been struggling with my stretch marks on my upper body for years preventing me from wearing certain clothes. In my perspective, change starts with you; that is why I am confident with my body to show young women they can be too,” she said.
Ganesh plans to further her education as she said she has always been interested in academics. She enjoys being a teacher and will work towards qualifying herself at the Cyril Potter College of Education.