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India\u2019s Harnaaz Sandhu made history on Sunday as she won the title of Miss Universe 2021 beauty pageant. 21 years old Harnaaz, represented India at the 70th<\/sup>\u00a0Miss Universe 2021, which was held in Eilat, Israel.<\/p>\n After a 21 year long wait, a Punjabi girl brought back the laurel Miss Universe crown to India. Before Harnaaz Sandhu, only two Indians have won this title of Miss Universe; the first one was Sushmita Sen in 1994 and later Lara Dutta won the crown in 2000.<\/p>\n Harnaaz Sandhu claimed the crown edging out Paraguay\u2019s Nadia Ferreira and South Africa\u2019s Lalela Mswane. She also won the title of the Times Fresh Face in 2017 and the title of Femina Miss India Punjab in 2019.<\/p>\n She was dressed in a shimmery gown which was designed by transwoman designer Saisha Shinde, beauty queen Sandhu looked gorgeous in her attire.<\/p>\n After beating contestants from 80 countries and making history as she was crowned Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu poured in from all over the internet on Monday morning.<\/p>\n Actor Lara Dutta tweeted, \u201cCongratulations, @HarnaazSandhu03!!!! Welcome to the club!!! We\u2019ve waited 21 long years for this!!! You make us So So proud!!! A billion dreams come true!!!@MissDivaorg\u201d.<\/p>\n Sushmita Sen\u00a0shared a couple of photos of her from the beauty pageant and wrote,\u00a0\u201cHar Hindustani Ki Naz\u2019 Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu\u00a0#MissUniverse2021<\/a>\u00a0#INDIAAAAAA<\/a>\u00a0Soooooo\u00a0proud of you!!!!<\/p>\n Congratulations\u00a0@harnaazsandhu_03<\/a>.\u00a0Thank you for representing India so beautifully, for bringing back the Miss Universe Crown to India after 21 years ( by a 21 year old,\u00a0you were destined). India\u2019s Harnaaz Sandhu made history on Sunday as she won the title of Miss Universe 2021 beauty pageant. 21 years old Harnaaz, represented India at the 70th\u00a0Miss Universe 2021, which was held in Eilat, Israel. After a 21 year long wait, a Punjabi girl brought back the laurel Miss Universe crown to India. Before Harnaaz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":334893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[14858,14859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334894,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334892\/revisions\/334894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/334893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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