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Miss World Runner-up a ‘Winner’ at Atlantis

DUBAI - Parvathy Omanakuttan may not have won the Miss World Beauty pageant, but at the Atlantis on Thursday she was the winner.

Walking across the lobby of the vast hotel, she cut a perfect picture as she more than willingly posed for the dozens who had gathered to gawk at this year’s Miss World runner up. “Awww…I’ll come back,” she told a small girl who wanted to take a picture with her before being whisked away by her minders for interviews.

An English literature major, the South Indian beauty had all the right answers. “I love Dubai! I’m so excited to be here. I can see the fishes from my balcony,” she told Khaleej Times.

Omanakuttan said she had no regrets about winning the second spot at the pageant last year in |South Africa, where the crown was won by Russia’s Ksenia Sukhinova.

“I came back with a fulfilling experience and a lot of friends. My roommate who was Miss Indonesia was a gem,” she said, adding luck played an important role. Clad in a stunning wine-red embroidered long gown, Omanakuttan said their every move was scrutinized by the judges. “I’m happy the way I portrayed myself,” she said, adding that she wouldn’t do anything different if she had another shot at the crown.

“I’m going to try to do my bit for the world,” she said after refusing to talk about the charities she wants to be associated with. “But I love children and will be focusing on them and the elderly community beginning in India. As they say charity begins at home!”

Omanakuttan has been invited to Dubai by Good Times Global, a destination management services provider in the UAE, to felicitate her at a dance drama to be presented today by Shobhana, another renowned South Indian performer.

The 21-year-old said that as a young girl she was building her stamina on the sports field when others her age were trying to match their steps to classical beats.

“I have always been a tomboy with short hair and athletic in nature. I did learn Bharatnatyam when I was a child but then stopped when we moved to Bombay.”

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