Rishika Kishan Pardeshi – Shrirampur's Artisan's Daughter Shines at Alee Club Miss and Mr Teen India 2026

There's something fitting about a girl who grew up watching gods and goddesses carved from clay stepping into a pageant built on presence and form. Fifteen-year-old Rishika Kishan Pardeshi comes from Shrirampur, near Pune, where her father, Kishan Kailas Pardeshi, spends his days sculpting religious idols by hand, work that leaves no room for carelessness. A student at Mahale Poddar, much of what shapes Rishika happens outside the classroom, in a home where patience is a daily practice. Her mother, Pratidnya, keeps that home running with the same quiet consistency. Rishika's confidence at the Alee Club Miss and Mr Teen India 2026 finale feels lived-in, almost inherited — the same steady care that turns raw material into something meaningful, now applied to a different kind of canvas.