| They were decorated with flowers, and smeared heavily with yellow turmeric and red sindoor. |
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| Many women are rejecting sindoor, vermilion worn in the hair to signify devotion to a husband. |
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| All three samples of sindoor tested positive and contained high amounts of lead, possibly because lead was added as a pigment. |
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| A large-set woman with a round, cheerful face, she dresses in striped shirts and fitted trousers, her long hair lined with fiery-red sindoor. |
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| She hadn't neglected the venerable Hindu mark of a married woman, the smudge of red sindoor powder in the parting of her hair. |
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| Sindoor Jatra Festival is celebrated each year in Thimi, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, to welcome the Nepali New Year and celebrate the coming of spring. |
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