The first beauty pageant
In 1907, the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpō held Asia's first beauty pageant heralding the entry of women into the public sphere.
Take your socks off, get your rocks off
Shringar refers to the ancient Indian art of self-beautification, specifically within the context of romantic love.
On Beauty
“The ancients said ‘man can be enraptured only by perfection.’ What, then, is perfection in a woman? It is her charm.