LonFlores wrote:Ian Sebastin wrote:India has slowly been regaining their powerhouse status at Universe. I think her win will bring Universe mania back to India.
She seems to be the most adored winner in many years. Most people are happy for her win.
When will Puerto Rico win? They have not been winning since the Trump era, which favors trashy girls like Zuleyka and favors host country like in 2001, ended.
sephie wrote: After the victory of India in Miss Universe, how did the country receive her win? Was her victory celebrated in India?
panchopolo wrote:sephie wrote: After the victory of India in Miss Universe, how did the country receive her win? Was her victory celebrated in India?
Barely. The nation is preoccupied with COVID-19 and Omicron, with new restrictions on public movement increasingly being done in major cities in the past month.
National interest in pageantry seems to have faded away after the historic 2000 wins at Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss Asia Pacific. A colleague here once told me that the the triumphs of India in the 1990s (and 2000) helped ensure that the Western cosmetic industry entered India. Today, India is entrenched as one of the largest markets for global cosmetic companies, even as the younger generations care little about pageantry. For them, pageant winners become faces in Bollywood, where their exposure is a lot greater.
(Indian forumers, please feel free in confirming or denying this.)
Jon A wrote:Very well received but objectively, it was a shadow of Manushi's win. Hard to say why. For one, she has not had an official homecoming yet (but news cycles move on, so I think that was a mistake) and second, in a way Miss Universe in India is like Miss Universe in The Philippines - lots of pride and attention for the win but beyond pageant fans, it has not connected and everyone just wants the other crown.
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