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ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2014
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Fashion
Kristina Pimenova – most beautiful girl in the world
Mother insists child supermodel sheltered from fame
MOSCOW, Dec 25, (AFP): Kristina
Pimenova has been dubbed “the most
beautiful girl in the world” but her
mother says the eight-year-old
Russian supermodel is completely
ignorant of her worldwide fame.
On catwalks since the age of three,
Kristina, who models for Armani and
Roberto Cavalli, is famed for her big
blue eyes and bewitching smile, with
over 2.5 million fans on Facebook
and nearly 500,000 followers on
Instagram.
“She is a very modest girl, she
does not know what it is, this starmania,” her mother Glikeria
Pimenova, a former model herself,
told AFP.
“She never hears the word ‘popularity’, we simply do not use it at
home,” she said.
But besides the millions of fans,
the Pimenova phenomenon has also
raised worries and plenty of hackles,
with many claiming some of her photoshoots are too sensual for an underage girl.
“She is too young to be so sexually
explicit,” one of the girl’s fans commented on a photo where she is sitting beside a vintage typewriter with
her mini-skirt riding up on her thighs.
Criticism
“Don’t forget to be a child!” another commentator wrote.
Pimenova — who handles her
daughter’s social media accounts and
updates them with new photos almost
daily — has rejected the criticism.
“If someone reacts to photos
abnormally, it’s not my problem,” she
said, adding that Kristina — who
turns nine on December 27 — only
wears children’s clothes and rarely
uses make-up in her modelling photos.
“Photo sessions take very little
time in Kristina’s life as she chooses
them in a very meticulous manner...
Otherwise, she would have worked
almost every day,” the young model’s
mother said.
The American actress, model and
former child star Brook Shields said
that the the controversies over
Kristina’s photos highlight ethical
problems around child models in the
social network age.
As a child, “I had pictures just like
that... I think that with social media
and with the access it becomes a bit
more dangerous,” Shields told the
New York-based Meredith Vieira TV
show earlier this month.
“I don’t think these photos (of
Kristina) are bad, however you are
asking for a certain type of reaction
and person... (People on social
media) can say whatever inappropriate thing they want to say, they don’t
have to be responsible and that just
becomes dangerous,” Shields added.
“It can get out of hand.”
Born in Moscow on December 27,
2005, Kristina spent the first months
of her life in France, where her footballer father, Ruslan Pimenov, played
for FC Metz.
She “has good genes” is passionate
about gymnastics and spends four to
five hours a day training, her mother
said. “This is more than a hobby.”
“Kristina is a very ordinary girl
and goes to an ordinary Moscow
school.”
But the young model has a busy
schedule. After school she goes to
gymnastics classes and only comes
home at around 8 pm, “sometimes
later”, he mother said, with only one
day off a week.
Her mother said Kristina loves
pizza and pancakes and when she has
spare time likes to read “Alice in
Wonderland”, Greek myths and “The
Little Prince”, or make mini-films on
her iPhone. “She dreams of becoming
an actress or a filmmaker,” Pimenova
said.
“I don’t think her popularity is
related to her modelling career. This
only added to the interest she has
always attracted since her birth.
“Kristina has a great inner beauty.
Maybe others feel it,” she said. “And
then there is her face which many
people find attractive.”
for conducting this event with such
great success year after year.
Some of the Competition winners
enthralled the audience with their
speeches and recitations. Their performance on stage proved beyond
doubt their well-deserved first position.
The Chief Guest, guest of honor,
senior members of IMWA as well
other dignitaries present distributed
awards to the Quran Competition
winners out of the 500+ students who
participated in the Quran competition.
The program concluded by Vote of
Thanks offered by IMWA’s General
Secretary, Br. Israr Ahmed to all those
who attended this Award Conferral
function. Snack packets were subsequently distributed to all the attendees of the Award Conferral
Function.
Passionate
A photo from the event
IMWA conduct award conferral for Holy Qur’an Competition 2014
IMWA’s Award Conferral of Quran
Competition 2014 was held on
Saturday, Dec 20, 2014 at Salmiya
Indian Model School (SIMS), Kuwait.
The award conferral function was
anchored by Br Mir Abrar Ali. The
lively anchor kept the audience
engaged and informed of the events
for the evening.
The function started with Quran
recitation
by
Miss.
Asma
Manshauddin and the translation was
read by Miss SumayyaParveen.
Br Mohammed Manshauddin, the
President of IMWA welcomed the
Chief Guest, Engineer Khalifa Al
Fadala, Director of operations and
maintenance department, MEW. He
also welcomed the guests, dignitaries, IMWA members and its executive committee and more importantly,
the
winners
of
the
Quran
Competition. He informed that this
year 500+ boys and girls from 20
schools participated in the competition and 87 emerged as the winners.
In his concluding remarks he thanked
all those who contributed for the success
of
the
programme
speciallyNajatKhariya, for their contribution in conducting the competition,
SIMS Management &Ministry of
Awqaf&
Islamic
Affairs
and
Administration of Grand Mosque,
Kuwait.
Engineer Khalifa Al Fadala the
chief Guest gave an inspiring speech.
He praised the efforts of IMWA for
conducting such competitions which
help children come closer to their
roots, Islam.
Federation of Indian Muslims
(FIMA)
President
SiddeequeValiyakath praised IMWA
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Latest
RAK Seva Samithi program: RAK
Dance Academy, a fundraising charity
organization for poor handicapped students, is pleased to announce the New
Year’s Eve program which will be held on
Dec 31 at Carmel School, Khaitan
Auditorium. Are you a disco diva? A
dancing queen? Or the bell of the ballroom? Why not put your skills and enthusiasm to good use. We are inviting the
dance professionals and singers from different organizations to take part in this
competition. Award will be given to the
best performance by our chief guest from
Indian Embassy Kuwait. Please hurry for
the entry. Call Eswar on his mobile:
55656705.
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IKFS essay writing competition:
Indo-Kuwait Friendship Society in
Kuwait invites all to compete and participate in the “23 page” Essay on the topic
“Global Violence and Remedy for Peace”
in Arabic or English language.
The entry is restricted to young women
aged 23 years only, so as to coincide with
the life of the “Rachel Corrie”. IKFS earlier announced that “2014 IKFS Global
Peace Award” will be named in honor of
Late “Rachel Corrie” and will be known
as “IKFS-Rachel Corrie Global Peace
Award 2014”. IKFS has selected the name
of “Rachel Corrie” as a Martyr and in loving memory of her stand in “global and
non-violent peace initiative”.
The essay writings can be presented
either in PowerPoint or Microsoft Word
and the last date of receiving will be Dec
31, 2014. All essays are to be sent to:
Head of IKFS Essay Team Panel
“IKFS-Rachel Corrie Global Peace
Award 2014”.
Topic “Global Violence and Remedy
for Peace”
Email: ikfsociety@gmail.com
The essay winner will be awarded with
10,001 Indian Rupees or equivalent of
Kuwaiti Dinars in cash with Honorary
Plaque where “Late Rachel Corrie” s
name will be encrypted with. The winners
will be honored in a function to be conducted on Thursday, 26th February 2015
coinciding with Kuwait Liberation Day.
A photo from the event
Amman branch students excel in ICSK mega arts fest
The students of the Indian Community
School Kuwait Amman Branch performed par excellence and bagged
overall championship trophies in several categories at the recently concluded Mega Arts Fest conducted at
ICSK Senior branch. The Mega Arts
Fest was conducted on Dec 20 and 21
and featured several arts competitions
for all the categories. The participants
were from Class K.G. to XII. The students of ICSK Amman performed the
best and bagged the overall trophies
for the categories 2, 3 and 4.
Master Misbah Zeus Arakkal of
Class I C won the ‘Kalaprathiba’ title in
category I and Master Kevin Baiju
Parakal of Class IV B won the
‘Kalaprathiba’ title in category II. Miss
Afrah Rafi of Class VII G and
Miss Ashifa Sayed Furkhan Ali won
the ‘Kalathilakam’ title in the Category
III and IV respectively.
This proud accomplishment is the
result of the hard work and dedication
of the participants of Amman branch
with the guidance, motivation and support of the Principal, teachers and parents. It is undeniably a glorious
moment for ICSK Amman as this is
their second consecutive achievement
at the Mega Arts Fest.
PBD convention in India: The
Thirteenth Edition of Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas (PBD) convention will be held in
Gandhinagar, Gujarat from Jan 7-9, 2015.
The Government of Gujarat will be the
State partner of this event. PBD 2015 is
special as it is the centenary year of the
return of Mahatma Gandhi from South
Africa to India to lead India to freedom.
The Thirteenth Edition of PBD which
seeks to bring the expertise and knowledge of overseas Indians on a common
Jan 8, 2015
YMCA Christmas, New Year:
YMCA Kuwait is organizing Christmas
Carol and New Year Celebrations on
Thursday, Jan 8, 2015 at Indian
Community Senior Girls School, Salmiya
from 6:30 pm onwards. You are cordially
invited to join and grace us with your
presence along with your family and
friends to celebrate this season of love and
joy with us. Along with heavenly angels
various parishes choir in Kuwait will sing
in the glory of the new born King, Don’t
miss out the opportunity! Be there!.
For further details you can please contact the following members: Mathews
Mammen — 97861374, Santhosh Mathew
— 55665366, Parimanam Manoj —
97542985.
Jan 23, 2015
MahaQuizzer Middle East: NIT-
A photo from the event
Jan 7, 2015
platform to benefit the country’s development process, will be a fitting tribute to
Mahatma Gandhi. The Government of
Gujrat will be the State partner of this
event.
The Convention will be formally inaugurated on Jan 8, 2015 by Hon’ble Prime
Minister after “Pre-PBD events on Jan 7,
2015. The Valedictory address will be
delivered on Jan 9, 2015 and the Pravasi
Bhartiya Samman Awards will also be
conferred on the same day. Many eminent PIOs/NRIs and other important
guests from India and abroad are likely to
take part in the convention.
In order to celebrate the occasion in a
befitting manner, it has been decided to
have a Book Exhibition wherein the
books of overseas Indian writers are to be
kept for the benefit of the participants during the PBD - 2015.
All Indian associations, Indian writers
are encouraged to participate in the Book
Exhibition.
Taking this opportunity, the Embassy
seeks greater participation and support to
the event and those interested may register
by logging-on to the website www.pbdindia.com at the earliest.
KDA announces Kozhikode Fest 2015
Kozhikode District Association, Kuwait
will celebrate its 5th Anniversary titled,
‘Kozhikode Fest-2015’ on Friday, April
10, 2015 at Indian Central School,
Abbasiya from 10 am onwards.
Reputed artists from India and Kuwait
will participate in the event. A reception
committee consisting of 151 persons
was formed to ensure the success of
the programme. Meeting held in connection with Kozhikode Fest 2015 was
presided over by Haneef C. President
of the Association. Shyjith K. General
Secretary explained about Kozhikode
Fest 2015. Kozhikode Fest is conducted with an aim of strengthening associ-
ation’s pronounced charity scheme
‘Karunyam’ which is formed to help the
underprivileged Kozhikode district
natives to meet medical expenses for
the treatment of severe diseases like
heart disorders, kidney ailments, cancer, etc.
The association so far helped almost
80 people through this esteemed
scheme.
Abdul Najeeb T.K. is the General
Convener of Kozhikode Fest 2015.
Joint Convenors are: Ramdas
Chilamban, Ramakrishnan M. and
Shaji K.V. Convenors of various committees are: Muneer Marakkar
(Program), Sameer Vellayil (Coupon),
Shareef Thamarassery (Souvenir),
Hassankoya K. (Sponsorship), Najeeb
P.V. (Finance), Ragesh P.D. (Venue),
Abdulla Kollorath (Reception), Das K.T.
(Publicity), Rathidas K.V. (Volunteer)
Abdul Rahman K. (Food), Ashraf
(Transport) and Bharathan E.C.
(Membership).
The releasing function of Raffle
coupons for Kozhikode Fest-2015 was
conducted at Kabad resort. The
Kozhikode
Fest-2015
General
Convenor Abdul Najeeb T.K. handed
over the first coupon to Satheesh, representative
of
Faber-Castell.
Association President Haneef C.
presided over the function. General
Secretary
Shyjith
K.,
Patron
Rajagopalan E., Mahilavedi President
Mrs Biji Ramakrishnan...etc. spoke on
the occasion. The amount gained
through these coupons spends for
Karunyam scheme and hence requests
all the kind hearts to receive our raffle
coupons and join your helping hands
together with us. Also association
announced very attractive prizes for the
raffle coupons. Organizing Secretary
Shaji K.V. welcomed the function and
Treasurer Najeeb P.V. expressed vote
of thanks.
CAA-Kuwait announces the Third edition
of MahaQuizzer ME – Kuwait, extension
of MahaQuizzer, the annual solo quiz conducted by Karnataka Quiz Association
(KQA) simultaneously across several
Indian cities.
This is a solo open general written quiz
contest for participants, irrespective of
age, nationality or affiliation.
The quiz is on Jan 30, 2015, from 2pm
to 3.30pm with test centers in Salmiya
Indian Model School (SIMS), Fahaheel Al
Watanieh Indian Private School (DPS),
Ahmadi & United Indian School (UIS),
J’leeb Shyoukh. Special prizes for ladies
and students.
For further details & free online registration log on to
http://nitcaakuwait.org/wp/?page_id=1021
. Hurry!!! Registration open from Dec 21,
2014 to Jan 23, 2015.
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