Lt colonel, major and wing commander want to rediscover their feminity
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Lt colonel, major and wing commander want to rediscover their feminity
It's the catwalk instead of combat as three women in India's armed forces are set to take part in the Gladrags Mrs India beauty pageant to be held at the Spring Mills, Bombay Dyeing compound in Wadala this evening. The contest is for married women only.
Lieutenant Colonel Ankita Srivastava from Allahabad finished 14 years of service in the army last year, the maximum that women officers are allowed to serve in the Indian army. Srivastava says she had won a Mrs Allahabad contest earlier which motivated her to participate in this one.
She was part of Operation Kargil and Operation Parakram that took place after the attack on the Parliament. She is now working for lady officers getting pension for their service in the force. "I am walking the corridors of power for that, though today I will walk the ramp," she explains.
She laughs and adds, "Both my sons (9 and 6 years) are flying down to Mumbai to watch me in the pageant.
They used to say, "All the other mammas look like mammas. Only our mother is more like a papa. We have two papas in the house."
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