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The World Before Her: Contrasting Lives and Visions
The opening to The World Before Her introduces Ruhi Singh, a small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant, and Prachi Trivedi, a young, militant leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.
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