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Former Ms India - Juhi Chawla |
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Indian Women and marriages
It is said that:
"Heaven is when you have an American Salary, live in a British
house, eat Chinese food and have an Indian Wife
Hell is when you have an American Wife; eat British Food; have a Chinese
house and get an Indian Salary" |
It is not contempt for the British and the Chinese, but this sounds
more right:
"Heaven is when you have an American Salary, an American house and eat Indian food
and have an Indian Wife"
Indian marriages are mostly arranged marriages. That might
be one reason why divorce rate in India is amongst the lowest in the world. The other
reason of course is that Indian women are extremely understanding. Making sacrifices and
adjustments are their strongest traits. Apart from winning beauty contests, Indian women like twenty-one year old
Subbaraman
Vijayalakshmi excel in brains too. Viji won a rare honour in July 2000, by becoming the
first Indian women Chess Grand Master (GM).
List of world's most beautiful women
Source: Femina, India
| Ms Universe - Lara Dutta |
Year |
Miss Universe |
Country |
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2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994 |
Lara Dutta
Mpule Kwelagobe
Wendy Fitzwilliam
Brook Lee
Alicia Machado
Chelsi Smith
Sushmita Sen |
India
Botswana
Trinidad
USA
Venezuela
USA
India |
Reita Faria, a young
medical student from Mumbai, created history in 1966 by becoming the first
Indian to be crowned Miss World. However, it took almost twenty-six years
for another Indian to win at an international beauty pageant.
| Ms World - Aishwaria Rai |
Year |
Miss World |
Country |
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2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994 |
Priyanka Chopra
Yukta Mookhey
Linor Abargil
Diana Hayden
Irene Skliva
Jacqueline Aquilera
Aishwarya Rai |
India
India
Israel
India
Greece
Venezuela
India |
History of the beautiful women of India
Source: Femina, India
2007
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Miss India Universe - Puja Gupta
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Miss India World - Sarah-Jane Dias
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Miss India Earth - Pooja Chitgopekar
2006
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Miss India Universe - Neha Kapur, later placed among the top 20
semi-finalists at Miss Universe
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Miss India World - Natasha Suri, top 17 semi-finalists, second runner up
(beach beauty), second runner up (dress designer award), top 10 in (talent
round)
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Miss India Earth - Amruta Patki, 1st runner-up Miss Earth 2006 held in
Manila, Philippines
2005
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Miss India Universe - Amrita
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Miss India World - Sindhura Gadde, later placed among the top 15
semi-finalists at Miss World
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Miss India Earth - Niharika
2004
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Miss India Universe - Tanushree Dutta, later placed among the Top 10 at
Miss Universe
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Miss India World - Sayali Bhagat
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Miss India Earth - Jyoti Brahmin, later placed among the Top 16
Semifinalists at Miss Earth
2003
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Miss India Universe - Nikita Anand
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Miss India World - Ami Vashi, later 3 runner up at Miss World 2003
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Miss India Earth - Swetha Vijay
2002
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Miss India Universe - Neha Dhupia, later ninth at Miss Universe.
It started with a dream for the tall and slender beauty with dark-brown
eyes. Millions of moments later, Neha Dhupia, a true-blue Virgo, sported a
smile infused with the fragrance of sweet success.
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Miss India World - Shruti Sharma semifinalist in miss world 2002
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Miss India Earth - Reshmi Ghosh
2001
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Miss India Universe - Celina Jaitley, later fourth runner-up at Miss
Universe.
The light-eyed lady
with an hourglass figure, Celina Jaitley was definitely a crowd puller in
the Femina Miss India contest. Little wonder, then, that she walked away
with all the laurels and the precious title too.
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Miss India World - Sara Corner
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Miss India Earth - Shamita Singha, later fifth place at Miss Earth (first
contestant from India ever to compete)
2000
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Miss India Universe- Lara Dutta, later Miss Universe, 2000 (also Miss
Intercontinental 1997).
When she wore the crown in the beautiful city of Cyprus, her triumph was
best described as deserving. Lara Dutta describes her winning the Miss
Universe title as being "a culmination of a dream" content.
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Miss India World - Priyanka Chopra, later Miss World, 2000.
The eighteen-year-old gal from
Bareilly, Priyanka
Chopra beat out 94 other lovely ladies to claim the Miss World 2000 title.
And she sashayed away with $100,000 as prize money at the Millennium dome,
London.
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Miss India Asia-Pacific International- Diya Mirza, later Miss
Asia-Pacific, 2000.
Think delicacy, poise, elegance and brains. Think Diya
Mirza, a heavenly beauty from
Hyderabad, who won the
prestigious Miss Asia-Pacific title at the beauty pageant held on
December 2, 2000,
in Manila.
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Miss India International- Gayatri Joshi, later semifinalist at Miss
International 2000
1999
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Miss India Universe - Gul Panag, later sixth place at Miss Universe.
She
has tremendous faith in herself. After obtaining a doctorate in
developmental economics. She entered the media, inspired by her newsreader
aunt, Komal G B Singh. She believes that the possibilities are endless.
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Miss India World - Yukta Mookhey, later Miss World, 1999.
Her serenity and calm shone throughout the pageant. The
5'11'' tall brunette from
India took London's
Olympia theatre by storm in 1999.
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Miss India Asia Pacific - Shivangi Parikh.
The stage was not new for Shivangi who
had modelled for Hemant Trivedi & Achala Sachdev, starred in music videos
and also won the Miss Mumbai pageant.
1998
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Miss India Universe - Lymaraina D'Souza, later seventh place at Miss
Universe.
How does a 19-year-old
collegian who's never worn make-up before and who claims to "eat like a
horse" and be "pretty laid-back" get to be Femina Miss India-Universe
1998? Well, Lymaraina D'Souza was clear about her goals. She is pursuing
her studies in Psychology in Hawaii.
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Miss India World - Annie Thomas
1997
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Miss India Universe - Nafisa Joseph, later tenth place at Miss Universe.
Winning the crown did not come as a big surprise to her. She portrayed
great confidence at the Miss Universe pageant, and in reply to one of the
questions, she said that, to bring a child into the world and not able to
offer it peace was the biggest injustice done in the world.
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Miss India World - Diana Hayden, later Miss World, 1997.
This little princess from
Hyderabad flew out of
the country only to return after being crowned the world's most beautiful
woman on November 22, 1997,
in Seychelles. And moments after winning the crown, she told that the
title meant the world to her.
1996
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Miss India Universe- Sandhya Chib, later seventh place at Miss Universe,
1996.
Years after winning the contest, Sandhya returned and
took the stage by storm. Today, Sandhya is a successful model. Luck was
not on her side at the Miss Universe pageant where she stood seventh. On
her return, she got engaged.
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Miss India World - Rani Jeyraj, later third runner-up at Miss World, 1996
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Representative at Miss International - Fleur Dominique Xavier
1995
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Miss India Universe - Manpreet Brar, later first runner-up at Miss
Universe.
An MBA student,
Manpreet won the Miss Universe Runner-up title. Today, she leads a busy
life with ramp shows and shooting for channel [V] as a VJ. She also plans
to be a TV producer some day.
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Miss India World - Preeti Mankotia
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Representative at Miss International - Priya Gill
1994
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Miss India Universe - Sushmita Sen, later Miss Universe, 1994.
She
stunned the universe. And shone on Manila. Euphoria gripped India on
May 21, 1994,
when, for the first time ever, an Indian girl was crowned Miss Universe,
at Manila, Philippines. That's Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994.
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Miss India World - Aishwarya Rai, later Miss World, 1994.
She first caught the audiences' fancy in the Pepsi
advertisement with Aamir Khan. Soon after, she won the Femina Miss India
title in 1994. She also won the Miss World title, and became the second
Indian to be crowned Miss World in 28 years.
1993
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Miss India - Namrata Shirodkar, later sixth place at Miss Universe.
Another model-turned-actress, Namrata had support of her sister Shilpa,
who's a celebrated actress in Bollywood. Presently, Namrata is doing films
and has a lot of them lined up for release as well.
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Miss India first runner-up - Karminder Kaur
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Miss India 2nd Runner-Up - Pooja Batra.
Who can miss Anil Kapoor's stunning city-bred girlfriend in the film
Virasat or the `Head & Shoulders' advertisement that is flashed on
television so often. Today, Pooja devotes her time in doing meaningful
roles and good films.
1992
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Miss India - Madhu Sapre, later second runner-up at Miss Universe, 1992.
This leggy lass came within touching distance of the Miss Universe crown
but was pipped by her own honesty. She still is the eternal ramp favourite.
And now she's writing a book tentatively titled ‘Tuff Girls Don't Talk
Englis’. The title says it all.
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Miss India World - Shyla Lopez
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Miss India International - Kamal Sandhu
Other prominent Miss India’s
1980 - Sangeeta Bijlani
1984 - Juhi Chawla
1985 - Sonu Walia
1986 - Mehr Jessia
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Fast
Facts:
- Indian women are the beautiful women on earth. This is an
under statement!- Most Indian marriages are arranged marriages
- Divorce rates in India are amongst the lowest in the world.
- Two of the Miss Universe titles have gone to
Indian women.
- Four of the Miss World titles have gone to Indian
women. |
