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Article: Sitting pretty: (village woman Fatima Bi elected to village council challenges Indian leadership ideas).
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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A 19-year-old girl, tall, long-legged, slim and pretty comes home wearing a crown -- a shiny, tinselly, glittering thing. She's been crowned Miss World, the third Indian to make it in four years. Only one more needed, say the newspapers, for us to reach Venezuela's record. I'm proud of my country, says this young woman, I want to do something for it. How wonderful that she won the crown, say television shows, not only because of her good looks but also because she has a brain!
She answered the questions well. When they asked her if she would be willing to have a relationship with a married man, she said no. She wouldn't want to hurt another woman. Proof of high ...