Nafisa Joseph

Nafisa Joseph was an Indian model and MTV video jockey. She was the winner of Femina Miss India Universe 1997 and was a finalist in the Miss Universe 1997 pageant in Miami.

Nafisa Joseph was born onMarch 1978 in Bangalore, Karnataka, where she was also brought up. She was the younger of two daughters born to father Nirmal Joseph, a Keralite Syrian Christian and mother Usha Joseph, a Bengali, who was a descendant of Tagore and first cousin of Sharmila Tagore. Nafisa studied at Bishop Cotton Girls School and St. Josephs College, both at Bangalore. She was raised Catholic, but owed her Islamic first name to the fact that her paternal grandmother was Muslim.

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