The only legitimate reason the Sunsilk Miss South India or whatever contest in Bangalore is getting a few inches of space here is because it gives us a chance to do two (OK, three) things.
To ask the ever-green question: just what is it about our beauty contests that they can never throw up a winner whose name is Venkatalakshmamma i.e. why do they all look the same? And because it gives us yet another (flimsy, sexist) excuse to link to one of churumuri‘s most-visited stories: The Sexiest South Indian South Asian Woman in the World.
And the third reason is…?
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
churumuri 
we recently had ‘parvathy omanakuttan’… we’re slowly getting to puttnanjamma… patience.
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Alla swami, how can one still savor the beauty of modern day apsara and day dream when their name has a suffix amma. It can cause such colossal rasabhanga that you may as well throw a bucket of water.
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@Wanderlust is right. Parvathy is a very unusual name.
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You miss sun and silk in these shows. The attraction is towards the body not the silk…..silk smitha……
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I am looking at a magnified version of the picture to find the “ammas” mentioned in the caption. May my quest never end.
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Did you mean to say why rural beauties cant be seen in beauty contests?
Because everyone,even in villages, stopped naming the girls with the suffix amma since 2 or 3 decades.
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I have to agree with B.S. Sridhar!
Also it is very rare to see old-fashioned names among Kannadigas. I hear names which sound crypto konga or even some deformed creature being named thus. only on learning the true meaning of the name, one is relieved. Names like Anagha (sounds like a cobra), Tharang (frequency?) are in this category.
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Doesnt tarang also mean one which makes music or soothing vibrations? As in the instrument jal tarang.
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no gult with a mile-long name wins these beauty contests? jarugula geetha sravanthi narayanasetty by any chance?
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Gults have won(Mysore’s very own Pandit sisters) but not those with long names/initials.
Amma is only an honorific which has morphed into a name!
Bhagirathi : Bhagirathamma
Gayatri Devi(various royals including the quintessential beauty, who didn’t have to participate in any contest to be crowned a beauty queen) : Gayatramma!
So if you want, you can call Miss Parvathy Omnakuttan as Parvathamma(if the doyenne of Sandalwood permits :P )
Of course, a Puttnanji winning will be really awesome!
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Old Kannada place names are facing the same kind of extinction as the revered “amma.” Hosahalli became Vijayanagara, Anepalya Gajendranagara, GowripaLya GoripaLya, Malleshwarana Gudi Malleswaram . . ..
The worst is yet to come.
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There may be no more amma’s but at least there are appa’s like Nihkil Chinappa and Prasad Bidappa.
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But, atleast some of the names of beauty queens representing The South, mentioned in some newspaper are not from South. what happened to south indian beauties?
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Parvathi OmanaKuttan is a southy name.but look at her.she got very sharp features unlike our girls(aishwarya,shilpa etc).yeah ,she looks good.but not for our taste.will work for europeans or our malayalee friends(I guess she is a malyalee?).
Our girls – I am a Mangalorean BTW!
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