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Friday Connections – 13-11-09

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Oh yeah, I dated this international style! So, I''ve decided to start linking some of my favorite reads at the end of the week - there's a million and one things I run across that seem like they'd be of interest to the readers of this blog, but I never have time to write a whole blog post about each one. Thus, Friday Connections. I'll try to group links each week into subjects. Let me know what you guys think!

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Wearing Sindoor as a White Woman

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

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Aditya loves, loves, loves it when I wear sindoor. For him it is the epitome of beauty. (There's also probably an element of husbandly pride and maybe something oedipal going on, but, hey, you can't win them all.) When I reach over to open to the medicine cabinet while brushing my teeth in the mornings, his face lights up in the hope that I'm grabbing out my container of vermilion powder: "Are you going to wear sindoor today?" You should! - you look so beautiful when you wear it!" And, almost always, I mumble something that amounts to "no, not today."

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