2013-09-16

US wakes up to a Miss America of Indian descent

For the first time America's top beauty queen is a woman of Indian origin, a first partly clouded by a spate of hateful Tweets branding her an Arab terrorist. The new Miss America is Nina Davuluri, a 24-year-old from the state of New York who wants to be a doctor. She called her crowning Sunday night at the Atlantic City pageant, in which she performed a traditional Bollywood-style dance, a victory for diversity in America.

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