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Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...
Houston Chronicle15d
Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
But when they leave — believing their sins have been cleansed by the redemptive bath — they leave with one thing in common: their foreheads display a sacred ... them with a symbol of the ...
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Rotterdam Festival Head Says ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Actor Soheila Golestani Is ‘Victim of Oppression’ Following Travel Ban
Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...
London Review of Books8d
‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
Or have they really taken it away? The moment comes early in Mohammad Rasoulof’s new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which won the Special Prize at Cannes last year and is among the first to ...