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HER friends call her a dancing queen, and not without reason. The newly crowned Miss Tibet-2005, Tenzin Nyima, loves to dance on Hindi songs, an unusual obsession for any Tibetan. So when she was declared the unopposed Miss Tibet at the contest held in McLeodganj in October, she could easily set the stage on fire with an electrifying performance on Kajrare to put any doubts about her selection to rest. "I just love the jhatkas in Hindi film songs. Born and brought up here, I started dancing on Hindi numbers when in Class V. It comes naturally to me even though I’ve had no formal training in dancing. I have an equal liking for the Indian classical dance forms," she says. This 22-year-old Tibetan beauty, who is a final-year English (honours) student at Delhi University, says the fact that a Tibetan can dance on Hindi numbers does surprise many. "Whenever my batchmates organise a hostel charity show, they insist on me dancing on a Hindi number even if they have better dancers on the team. They think it adds an element of surprise to the show," she smiles. "My father, who is an army officer, has maintained a huge collection of pictures and videos of me dancing at different school and college function. Though I have never participated in a talent hunt, I’m happy that my performance before the crowning ceremony proved my worth to the audience," she says. Even when I was studying at the Tibetan Mussorie Home School, my teachers would prefer me performing on a Hindi and not a Tibetan song, adds Tenzin. On her decision to do a La Ash at the Miss Tibet pageant, she says, "We needed a slightly fast number and the song is a class apart and gave me enough scope to show my dancing skills. Little wonder, it turned
out to be the icing on the cake for me." Tenzin was born in
Bylakuppe, the first and the largest Tibetan refugee settlement in
South India. Besides dancing, she likes play basketball with her
friends almost daily. She says that the crown has made little
difference to her daily life and she would continue with her studies. |
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