will unlurk just long enough to register the presence of one Indian woman who is genetically endowed enough to qualify for the miss india norm (well, height-wise, at least) and whose name seems to connote no particular gender in most parts of india. my favourite mis-spelling of it to date is ''ingrate'' (on a delhi airport car-hire placard).
personally, i think bollywood and fairness creams exacerbate ''the fair is lovely'' bias far more than beauty pageants do. not that we needed any help in that direction given age-old indian cultural biases. -- "The future is here; it's just not widely distributed yet." - William Gibson
