One of the Sixteen Adornment

Hello everybody, hope you all are doing fine. 

Do you ask where was I for these many days? Well, nothing but I had been to India my home. We enjoyed the one whole month vacation there and now I am back to Muscat with the usual routine. So it has been long since I wrote something and today I am going to talk about this which is a visual treat for me back home in Bangalore and more so in the remote villages nearby when we drove from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu where we holidayed.

If you want any hint on this, remember our Neena Gupta’s directorial series back in nineties Saans.

Courtesy: Saans Serial Promo on www.youtube.com

Yes of course I am talking about the beautiful vermilion coloured huge dot on the forehead of women in India.  There has been a joke on this too.

Courtesy: www.jokofy.com

Just recently, I read somewhere where they asked why do we wear bindi ? Why only Vermilion red? Is there any reason behind?

I am sure you all might have seen your mother, grandmother, aunt sporting this Bindi as one of the adornment in the middle of the forehead. It is said if you see a woman with this bindi from very far and you assume she has to be a married woman (This is one of the sign of a married woman). The scientific reason behind this is to stimulate the nerve that joins the centre of forehead and the brain and keep it active throughout the day. While keeping the bindi or vermilion powder, we have to press the centre point of the forehead so that the brain gets some kind of acupressure and it calms down the stress levels inside the brain. It also enhances the thinking nerves inside the brain.

Vermilion Red has the power to subside the negative energy of the person in front of it. This secret was very much used by our ancestors to turn all negative energy to positive and hence they use to propagate upon wearing the Vermilion coloured powder to the women in the house.

All said and done as and when the trend changed wearing this Vermilion powder to plastic stick on and later on totally discarding it as it might not suit the attire. It is true to some extent, but I feel given a chance why we for a change don’t revive this trend back.

I came across a beautiful innovation video which is a life saving dot. Literally Iodine supplement for the women in India. Must Watch and here is the video.

Need some inspiration? Sure we do in the name of fashion.

Ashley Judd at the premiere of her NGC Documentary on AIDS in 2007

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Gwen Stefani, an avid promoter of Indian Culture to the Non Hindu population in early 1990's

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Katy Perry in her Indian Attire to the 2011 Grammy's

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Sana Saeed elegantly sporting the bindi with the western outfit

Courtesy: Sana Saeed official Instagram

Willow Smith, Rapper Singer and Daughter of Will Smith has often seen with the bindi

Courtesy: Dailymail UK

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