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Article: Miss World and the Marxists.(opposition to beauty contests in India)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 28, 1996
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DELHI
AN INDIAN company has been chosen to stage this year's Miss World contest. Some might think India's newly proclaimed open-to-the-world economy is an appropriate place for a contest in world-class flesh. But two women's organisations have threatened to send suicide squads to the event in Bangalore in November. They say beauty contests turn women into commodities.
One of the suicide outfits is Hindu, the other Muslim, so the contest has at least produced unity in disagreement. They have been joined in their protest by Hindu fundamentalists and socialists, all of whom feel India is under attack from western cultural colonialism. First Pepsi-Cola, then ...