By Anupriya Kumar, Miranda House College

Beauty pageants in the modern times have been a rage with people in countries across the world ever since 1950s. In India, the idea of a beauty contest caught popular imagination in 1994. I clearly recall that as a curious pre-teenager with an infinitely impressionable mind, I had rejoiced at the news of Sushmita Sen becoming the first Indian woman to clinch the coveted Ms Universe title in 1994. The country was still riding the joy wave of the tall and elegant Ms Sen’s victory when later that year, another Indian girl Aishwarya Rai ‘beat’ contestants from as many as 87 countries to take home the Miss World title

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Happy Diwali from Youthv!! 

Deepawali or Diwali is certainly the biggest of all Hindu festivals. It's the festival of lights (deep = light and avali = a row i.e., a row of lights) that's marked by four days of celebration, which literally illumines the country with its brilliance and dazzles all with its joy. Each of the four days in the festival of Diwali is separated by a different tradition, but what remains true and constant is the celebration of life, its enjoyment and goodness.

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- By Cijo .P. Mathew

Sometimes I ask myself as to what is going to be our next generation of politicians gonna be like. Our generation has seen politicians who are corrupt and misuse their powers to benefit themselves. Here , I am not saying that the entire  political  community is corrupt , there are  honest leaders  who  work  with integrity  towards  the cause of nation building . When we think of politics today, what also comes to mind is the dirty game of communal politics played by some handful politicians and the riots in the name of rAeligion to create a rift among countrymen to either come to power or maintain power?   People who have good intentions and want to really work for the society are often not allowed to, by these corrupt politicians. Seeing all this happen, today our young generation don’t want to enter this field, many would say “I don’t want to enter into this mess” and   some others would simply say that “politics is not for me”.      

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