Miss India-NZ doesn't look 'Indian enough'

MELBOURNE: A 21-year-old woman, who won the Miss India-NZ beauty contest in New Zealand in April, is at the centre of a new racism row after being accused of not looking Indian enough.
The blonde, blue-eyed Jacinta Lal was booed and has been the subject of complaints to organizers from Indian spectators who, she says, are no better than Paul Henry, the controversial New Zealand TV host who mocked and mispronounced Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit's name.
Henry resigned after India lodged a diplomatic protest with New Zealand against his comments.
Lal, whose father is a Fiji Indian and mother a New Zealander, won the central district Miss India-NZ contest in Wellington in April, but the row has only now been revealed after the Henry incident, the New Zealand Hearld reported. Lal's supporters said they are disgusted at the way she was booed.