Sindhura Gadde, the 20-year-old girl from Vijayawada, a vibrant politico-cultural city in Andhra Pradesh of India, has made the Telugus proud all over the world when she bagged the Pond's Femina Miss India - World 2005  this month and qualified to contest in the Miss World pageant this year.   She had not only won the crown of International acclaim when it comes the Indians and the Diaspora, but also the admiration of many with her dictum that ? Beauty lies not in physical appearance, but in the hearts of those who look at the beauty in all. True to her belief, she is averse to the discrimination based on colour, creed or race.

Sindhura, who did most of her career at Auckland in New Zealand and Australia, has now made a conclusion for herself to lift the image of India to the global level at all levels, besides tapping the real power of the human resources worldwide. In fact, this young girl has a dream that belongs to all lands, on the lines of her own universal philosophy.

Not content with this, she further made deeper inroads into the Fashion week contests in NZ. Her three year long-stint with Consumer Link Market Research Company as Team Coordinator had really helped her shape up the career towards her dreamt goal. She was Miss India NZ 2002 ? 1st runner up and Miss Auckland 2002 ? 2nd runner up.

When Sindhura made her debut as public performer with NZTA Annual Celebrations in 2002, she could capture the immediate attention of the audience and the success continued for the next three years with her serial performances in New Zealand and India. She further took part in the Indian Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations held at NZ in the consecutive years.

When the girl chose to stalk claim for the most-coveted Indian Pageantry, she received the much-required thud from her parents. When she talked to the reporters at Hyderabad recently, she made her mind and thinking clear. Though young, her bent of mind is abundantly religious which she had inculcated from her mom. She contends that she had approached the Pageantry with the same approach ? putting the best of her efforts and leaving the rest to the divine providence. ?God has never created the Ugliness. Similarly, he never created anything that holds animosity with the Nature. Those who look beauty in others are representatives of the divine faith, which alone is beautiful,? Sindhura says.

Apart from wielding a fine cut figure, Sindhura believes she lives to enjoy Nature to the maximum levels of comprehension. Going by it, she loves skiing on the snowy mountains; and her favourite dish is cooking desserts with chocolate flavour; and exploring the mysterious beauty of the Gaza pyramids.

A brilliant student, her track record cuts across the fields of TV Anchoring, modelling and fashion shows, the beauty has green vistas before her ? when it comes to the Indian film industry. She possesses an additional advantage thanks to the interest of the Telugu audience in her. Sindhura has become a household name in Andhra Pradesh.

You can see Sindhura's ambition extending to the Miss World pageantry. At the same time, she believes that - Honour achieved through humanism is greater than the reputation acquired through physical beauty.