Miss World Trinidad and To­ba­go 2025, An­na-Lise Nan­ton, has writ­ten an open let­ter to her coun­try while vis­it­ing Telan­gana, In­dia, re­flect­ing on the cul­tur­al con­nec­tions, shared val­ues, and her ex­pe­ri­ences abroad.

Nan­ton is in Telan­gana as part of her Miss World du­ties and de­scribed the warmth, tra­di­tion, and en­er­gy of the south­ern In­di­an state as rem­i­nis­cent of home. In her let­ter, she not­ed how her­itage and in­no­va­tion ex­ist side by side in Hy­der­abad, which she called “Cy­ber­abad,” where glob­al tech com­pa­nies op­er­ate along­side cen­turies-old cul­ture.

She com­pared the two coun­tries, high­light­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Project Lara— the Caribbean’s largest so­lar farm— and the pride in nam­ing it af­ter crick­et leg­end Bri­an Lara.