In India, cheers for new Miss America
Miss New York Nina Davuluri speaks during a news conference following her crowning as Miss America 2014.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The first Miss America pageant winner of Indian heritage was cheered by family members halfway around the world.
Nina Davuluri’s grandmother told The Associated Press that she cried when she saw the news on television.
“I am very, very, happy for the girl. It was her dream and it was fulfilled,” 89-year-old Vege Koteshwaramma said by phone from her home in the city of Vijaywada, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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