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I oppose the Miss Diwali Guyana 2008 Pageant - Vidyaratha Kissoon
Those who support the Miss Diwali Pageant believe that its opponents want to remove glamour and elegance from the lives of the women who participate in pageantry.
Our society is dominated by pageants in many forms, all of which, it seems, have a goal to ’show’ women under all sorts of guises - culture, heritage, tourism, and now religion. We must ask ourselves why only women seem to be put through these shows, and not men. Don’t men have an equal role in promoting the culture, the heritage, the tourism, the religion which the proponents of pageants claim to be promoting? Read the rest of this entry »
Guyana National Diwali Committee exploiting attractive & unmarried women
DEAR EDITOR,
An advertisement appears in the newspapers on 24 September, 2008 from the Guyana National Diwali Committee asking for young, attractive and unmarried women to participate in a Miss Diwali pageant.This is an insult to the Hindu women and men who have worked to ensure that there is a reversal in the cycle of exploitation of women.
