Tuesday, November 09, 2004
The beauty business
The incident in Jammu where a Miss Jammu was lured into porn industry must make us realise the fallacy of having these beauty contests in the Indian society. My feeling is that the society is still very immature for these kind of contests.
I guess it was 1996 when Amitabh Bacchan organised the Miss World contest in B'lore amid huge protests from women activists and the Hindu rightists. (Dont miss out this pic of that protest!) My father predicted at that time itself that popularity of such contests will encourage the sleaze industry to thrive in the name of beauty contests, fashion shows, et al. This case just validates the fear. I hope the "liberal" media and intelligentsia take note of this.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
The incident in Jammu where a Miss Jammu was lured into porn industry must make us realise the fallacy of having these beauty contests in the Indian society. My feeling is that the society is still very immature for these kind of contests.
I guess it was 1996 when Amitabh Bacchan organised the Miss World contest in B'lore amid huge protests from women activists and the Hindu rightists. (Dont miss out this pic of that protest!) My father predicted at that time itself that popularity of such contests will encourage the sleaze industry to thrive in the name of beauty contests, fashion shows, et al. This case just validates the fear. I hope the "liberal" media and intelligentsia take note of this.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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