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- ↑ "Meet the Jewish Beauty Queens of India". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ↑ Miss India 2008, Bindaaspoll, Saturday, 1 November 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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