Padmini Rambalak off to Miss India Worldwide

Miss Guyana India Worldwide, Padmini Rambalak, has left the country for South Africa, where she will participate at the Miss India Worldwide Pageant in Durban on February 14.

Rambalak’s participation is a first for Guyana.  Miss India Worldwide is the longest running international Indian pageant with affiliates in over twenty countries.

Accompanying Rambalak will be her sister, Chandini Ramnarain, publisher of “Apsara magazine” and producer of the Apsara show.

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Rambalak is pursuing a degree in International Relations at the University of Guyana.
She is ecstatic to be involved in this pageant, and especially to be representing her country.
She has been dancing and modelling for 14 years, and is also a director and choreographer of Apsara.
Indian dance is one of the competition categories, along with three others: Indian Dress, Evening Gown and Question and Answer.
Padmini has represented Guyana internationally through dance in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the United States of America.
The Valentine’s Day pageant in Durban, South Africa, includes a sit-down dinner for 1,000 Bollywood, business, professional and stage personalities.
Satellite television will beam a taped version of the show to 1.2 billion people around the world.  A broadcast on the Internet is expected to be viewed by 300 million people.
Miss Rambalak encountered many challenges to get to South Africa to represent her country, the main being a lack of sponsorship; but, nevertheless, she and her sister/chaperone were not discouraged by adversities.
They persisted, with the knowledge that their fellow Guyanese will not let them down, and indeed they managed to receive contributions from a few companies, and would like to thank all those individuals and companies that have given them support.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009