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The crown awaits
As the countdown for the finale of The Hidden Treasure Miss Nepal 2018—the most prestigious beauty pageant in the country—begins,
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Published at : March 28, 2018
Updated at : March 28, 2018 08:44
Kathmandu
As the countdown for the finale of The Hidden Treasure Miss Nepal 2018—the most prestigious beauty pageant in the country—begins, the Post gives you a glimpse of the 25 contestants who are ready to stake their claim to the coveted crown.
Sandhya Adhikari
Age: 23
Hometown: Bharatpur, Chitwan
Height: 5’6”
If you were judging this pageant, what characteristics would you look for when choosing the winner?
Confident, kind, social, a warm smile, beauty with a purpose.
What career path have you chosen? Why?
I am a dentist by profession. I always aspire to be a doctor who works for a social cause. I chose to be a dentist to make everyone smile beautifully.
What random stranger has had the biggest impact on your life?
There was a girl in Miss Nepal
audition sitting next to me. She was a good competition for me. But later I found, I was the only one to be selected from Chitwan. Then I realised I am worthy of standing out in crowd and I have to prove it to myself.
What’s the worst and best thing about being a woman?
Being a woman is a great thing. But the best thing is women are full of love and worst thing is women are over thinkers.
What’s something horrible that we as humans have accepted, because that’s just how things are?
I think most horrible thing humans have accepted is only to consider physical beauty as an important marker to determine a person’s worth.
Sharvani Pandey
Age: 21
Hometown: Kathmandu
Height: 5’6”
If you were judging this pageant, what characteristics would you look for when choosing the winner?
A confident, driven and determined young lady who is comfortable in her skin and can present herself well in order to reach out to thousands of people to take a stand for themselves and be completely unapologetic for who she is. She must possess a good moral character and be dignified in all aspects of her life.
What achievement are you proud of but most people would consider silly or weird?
The day I could resist myself from any temptations, be it small or big. I plan small goods for myself and challenge myself every day, whether it is living without a cell phone for two years, taking cold shower even in winters, controlling unhealthy food habits. I have become a much more powerful individual.
What’s the worst and best thing about being a woman?
Worst thing is that most of the world is still part of patriarchal society. We, as women, have to face obstacles in every part of our lives. Best thing is our perseverance. No matter what comes our way, we have managed to stand up for ourselves and will continue to do so for the next generations to come.
Where is the last place you would ever go?
The place doesn’t matter, as long as I am spending time with people I am closest to, my family. They have always encouraged my strengths and forgiven my shortcomings.
What’s something horrible that we as humans have accepted, because that’s just how things are?
The fact that eating meat is okay. If slaughter houses were made of glass, the whole world would be vegetarian. And no, it’s not about the food cycle. We human beings have an option to choose food that is actually beneficial for our bodies. The more complex our food, the more difficult it will be for us to integrate it.
Priya Sigdel
Age: 23
Hometown: Kathmandu
Height: 5’9”
If you were judging this pageant, what characteristics would you look for when choosing the winner?
Presence of mind, personality, opinionated, values cultured people and a leader.
If a genie in a bottle could grant you any wish, what would it be?
To make sanitary napkins free so that the purchasing cost will be zero as period is not a choice.
What fact are you really surprised that more people don’t know about?
I love writing poems and inspire to write more but people don’t know about it much.
What do you wish people would stop asking you?
Why are you so tall?
What’s something horrible that we as humans have accepted, because that’s just how things are?
To forget the essence of our own selves and the values of our relationships. We cannot be satisfied with the world as it is. We need to create a world that makes us happy.
Susmita Sapkota
Age: 23
Hometown: Chitwan
Height: 5’6”
If you were judging this pageant, what characteristics would you look for when choosing the winner?
Discipline, dynamic, strongly determined and an honest winner who can advocate for the solutions of the problems in the society.
Would you rather run a business and contribute to the economy or run the country altogether?
It requires a lot of qualities to run a country in a whole. I would rather run a business and contribute to the economy as economic development of a country is equal to running or developing the country.
What fact are you really surprised that more people don’t know about?
I can move my both ears without the movement of any other organs in my body.
What do you wish people would stop
asking you?
To fake what I am not. I don’t believe in ‘fake it to make it’. I believe in being yourself all the time, everywhere you go.
What random stranger has had the biggest impact on your life?
Dhurmus-Suntali—Sitaram Kattel and Kunjana Ghimire. The way they have involved themselves on construction process for marginalised societies and their helping hands towards the victims of earthquake is so incredible. I don’t know them in person but they are my inspiration and they have made the biggest impact in my life.
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