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No one could be more relieved that the Indian cricket team is putting up such a spirited performance in our neighbor’s backyard than Laxmi Pandit. She will be more than thankful to Sehwag and Tendulkar to have hogged the headlines and the front pages in her supposedly moment of triumph turned disaster. First of all, I don’t approve of Femina’s audacious rule of allowing only unmarried women to compete for the title of Ms.India. Admittedly, the title itself demands such a rule but then the perks that go along with such a title in form of national and sometimes international recognition, modeling assignments and best of all, opportunity of a lifetime to perform an item-number in a Bollywood movie.
The married women in the age group of 18-24 must be surely kicking themselves for having succumbed to the temptations of boring marital life when the pleasures of sashaying down the ramp way in negligible clothing are just a diamond’s throw away. Look at it this way, when you marry you are supposed to have willing sacrificed all your aspirations for a career in glamour and are expected to guide the middle class infant to its way to a rats’ race life. But all the arguments of blatant bias against married women aside, I still think that the organizers of the beauty pageant were right in raising a ruckus on the marital status of a certain Ms or Mrs. Pandit. Stripped of (no pun intended) all grounds of unfairness, Laxmi erred on underestimating the power of “love thy nosy neighbor”.
These unmarried beauty queens will eventually go on to play dumb bimbettes in movies which will require them to act out a character that indulges in sequence of lies of keep her marital status a national secret. Either in roles that evoke emotional wails on the pitiable state of an unmarried woman in society or roles that raise some dumb guffaws on clichéd mistaken identities plotlines, rehearsing those roles ahead of times is frowned upon. But Laxmi is expected to uphold the moral integrity of her title that requires her to speak the truth and nothing but the truth. I wonder how many of the answers that end in Mother Teresa are always truthful.
But that apart, she is the Indian ambassador who will represent one of the most corrupt nations that is currently indulging in one of the honest promises mistakenly called election campaigning. Of course, she is expected to speak the truth even if it means that she will be promptly disqualified for a title that she has rightly earned. I bet the judges are extremely honest in reporting their income tax returns. No wonder India Shining has posted a 10.8% growth rate. In the future, Femina Ms.India contestant will have a truth or dare round before which they would be asked to swear on the Gita. But unfortunately, ugly and much-married Gita never makes it past the pre-screening rounds.
by Patrix | on Thursday, April 1st, 2004 at 8:06 pm | 
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