April 28, 2018
Actress-activist Dia Mirza, the UN Environment Goodwill
Ambassador for India, flew to San Francisco earlier this week to participate in
an all-women's panel discussion on the environment at the Steve Jobs Theatre.
Dia brainstormed on stage with three distinguished women -- Vien Troung (CEO
of Green For All organisation), Alexandra Cousteau (globally recognised for her
work on water-related issues) and Lisa Jackson (Apple's Vice President of
Environment, Policy and Social Initiative).
Dia said: "Thankfully, my
world is expanding and I am getting to do, meet and be a part of incredible
change. On Friday (April 27), I was in San Francisco participating in an
all-women panel environmental discussion at the Steve Jobs Theatre. It was an
immensely rewarding experience."
Back home, Dia who was formerly a beauty
pageant winner, is distressed by Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's
comments on beauty queens.
"What can one say of a man who claims Internet
existed in ancient India? He seems to have a resource of information that the
rest of us are not privy to," Dia sighed.
Deb had reportedly said in
Agartala that international beauty contests were a farce as the results were all
predetermined. He also said he failed to understand the "process of judgement"
of the crowning of the Miss World contest in 1997, in which Diana Hayden was
crowned.
Earlier, Deb was widely trolled for saying that Internet existed
during Mahabharata era.