Author: Ira Trivedi
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 233
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0144001438
Description
It’s Riya’s chance to turn fantasy into reality. The Miss Indian Beauty contest could well be her ticket to instant fame and success. After all, she’s good-looking, intelligent, confident and, most importantly, tall-how difficult could it be? But Riya is in for a dose of reality, as she soon finds herself in the company of twenty-two gorgeous girls, under house arrest in a five-star hotel in Mumbai for a rigorous training session that will test them all to their limits.
With each girl’s eyes set on the crown, the mood is emotionally charged and the atmosphere intense, exhilarating, vicious and explosive all at once. What Would You Do to Save the World? is a delightfully entertaining first novel which reveals the dust behind the diamonds, the tears behind the plastic smiles, and dishes the dirt on what really goes on behind the scenes of a beauty pageant.
Contents
Presenting the one and only
Hidden Hopes
What’s your height?
Pre-judging-the beginning of it all
On your marks, get set, go!
Meeting our trainers
Cleansing the mind, body and soul
The Miss Indian Beauty walk
Unrest
Clique concept
Public display
Sunday blues
Mid-life crisis
Spirituality for success
The power of love
Back to school
Disco dhamaka
Our first taste of the diamonds
The beauty bible
Curiosity killed the cat
The fate of a Miss Indian Beauty
The making of a Miss Indian Beauty
Truly talented
The calm before the storm
The final act
Of thorns and tiaras
Postscript
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS