Information of Miss World returning to India has rekindled reminiscences of the competitors’s tumultuous historical past within the nation, when in 1996, violent protests had been fuelled over a concern that encompassed each western cultural imperialism in addition to threats to the dignity of Indian ladies.
Members of an Indian feminist group threatened to commit mass suicide. Each right-wing politicians and left-wing pupil teams raised their voices collectively in opposition. Hundreds of police had been despatched to Bengaluru to protect the pageant, which, as a consequence of security considerations, relocated its swimsuit competitors to Seychelles. One pageant protester died from self-immolation.
Greater than 20 years because the chaos of the Miss World competitors, what does internet hosting the competition imply for India at the moment?
Indian magnificence queens have lengthy used pageants to construct greater careers in Bollywood and overseas. And extra competitions are selling concepts of feminine empowerment, freedom and management. However critics see the idea of a televised contest pitting ladies towards one another based mostly on slim requirements of magnificence, night robes, and an interview query as a relic rooted in patriarchy.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll take a look at how Indian ladies relate to the spectacle and enterprise of magnificence pageants.
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