INDIA BEAUTY PAGEANT

Navketan Aujla, right, gets a minor adjustment from contestant organizer Aparna Shukla, right center, as her mother Bimal Aujla, left center, and family friend Pam Thind look on, Sunday, June 6, 2004 in Jackson, Miss. The India Association of Mississippi sees the recent event, which attracted about 50 contestants, as far more than social for the state's estimated 8,500 Indians. Young Indian women honor their homeland's traditions while embracing America's pageant fever in a Southern state that views beauty queens as a major export. (AP Photo/Charles Smith)