​Life this way was new to me . I was the slightly ignored middle girl from a family of three girls, each born one year away from the other. Now I walked the lime lights and my family suddenly poured their attention on my well being.

It all started with me participating in a causal college fashion walk with a handmade dress, winning it, going to inter college and then one after the other, led me to be the runner up of the country's beauty contest. Even then my family was okay and not concerned. My father had smiled at the trophy and said, "Looks good. " They were busy with my elder sister's wedding. Bina asked my mother, "Mummy did you change your name during marriage or later " and the topic changed.

It was a development from the usual .. "Bina was always the intelligent one. Bishara was the athletic one.." They would forget they had one between Bina and Bishara and it was me Mrigaya. There was a time I wondered if I was adopted. My sisters were slightly plump and medium height, extremely fair. I was very tall, slender, dusky with slanted eyes.

It took me to win the Miss World title to understand that the world considered me beautiful. My family was suddenly speaking about how much they loved me. At that time their last call on my phone was a week away, in a convenient weekend lunch time. Ofcourse mother...