Monday, July 21, 2008

Kumkum or Bindi


When we visited the NGO Ashodaya who takes care and organizes the sex workers of Mysore, India, we were greeted with warm smiles, a rose and sampaguita garland, and a red dot powder on our head (called kumkum or bindi). I accidentally scratched it before I thought of getting a picture of myself (beside an autorickshaw).

We stayed in this marvelous hotel owned by the Maharajah of Mysore, the Lalitha Mahal Place Hotel, originally built for the visiting Viceroy of India in the early 1900s.

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