A highlight of the celebrations will be unveiling of a wax model of Aishwaraya Rai, the global face of Indian film industry and a former Miss World, at the Madame Tussauds Wax museum in Time Square on the Independence Day.
The model, on loan from the Madame Tussauds museum in London, will be on display in New York for six weeks. Rai becomes the first Indian to have her wax model displayed in New York.
Image: Girls sport tricolour dupattas
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