![]() How could they resist? The potential of this market would speed the heartbeat of any merchant. Already, the swimsuit competition has been chased out of the country to the more hospitable Seychelles islands. Beauty contests make for strange bedfellows, and this one has brought together modern feminists and turn-back-the-clock Hindu nationalists, left-wing students and right-wing politicians. ![]() Militant farmers promised to burn down the cricket stadium, the very arena where the queen is to be crowned as 2.5 billion people watch on global TV.ĭozens of groups have come out against the Nov. Commandos smeared cow dung in public places. ![]() ![]() But not even the most dour of pessimists expected mayhem of this sort, with the contest being assailed as a merchandising device for the decadent cultural imperialists of the West.įanatical protesters have threatened to immolate themselves in the streets-and one did so Thursday. India’s “garden city” may never have been an ideal spot for the Miss World pageant, what with its water shortages, power failures and the air quality of a bus terminal.
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