{"id":419,"date":"2010-07-23T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2010\/07\/23\/chacha-rng\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:17:22","slug":"chacha-rng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/chacha-rng\/","title":{"rendered":"Uraysha Ramracheya: Miss India South Africa 2010\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By Chacha RNG<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uraysha Ramracheya, Uri for intimates and daughter of Ebene City promoter Raj Ramracheya, was crowned Miss India KZN South Africa (KZN stands for Kwazulu Natal) on Saturday 17 July during the Miss India KZN South Africa Pageant 2010. The show was held at the City Hall in Durban, starting a little after 19.30 hrs and ending at about 23.30 hrs. There were 19 contenders in all, out of whom ten finalists were identified by the jury. Of these three were selected to be the winners, and Uri won the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018KWAZULU-NATAL\u2019s newest youth ambassador is more than just a pretty face \u2014 she\u2019s a third-year law student with a flair for the dramatic arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uraysha Ramracheya (20) was crowned Miss India South Africa KZN on Saturday night, a role she said she has been preparing for since she was four years old. \u201cEverything I have done since I was a child has been gearing towards this. This is honestly where I want to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ramracheya said she had carefully considered her drama and law combination when applying to universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI have wanted to act for as long as I can remember,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mother supported me, but also encouraged me to have something to fall back on, which is why I chose law and drama.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ramracheya wowed the judges with a semi-autobiographical mono-drama. \u201cIt involved drama, singing and dance \u2014 all in three minutes,\u201d she said. \u201cI explored the issue of identity; between being Indian and being South African,\u201d she explained. \u201cMy monologue ended with the words \u2018Indian by soul, South African by heart; I will be both\u2019 and that is the solution to the dilemma we face as young Indians,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ramracheya said that in the coming year she hopes to work with organisations promoting culture among the youth.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Consul of India, present at the function, announced that the three winners \u2013 Uri and her two princesses, would be offered a trip to India for three weeks, fully sponsored by the Indian government under the \u2018Know India\u2019 programme, during which they would be introduced to various aspects of Indian life and culture. Naturally, the girls were excited and all of them were looking forward to the trip.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Uri and her proud family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">* Published in print edition on 23 July 2010<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chacha RNG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-6L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}