The man with a slippery head wore a tilaka, a religious sign, on his forehead
A man sitting on the store front of a store I passed in Pune had a smooth head, while his beard was shaggy. I looked at the smiling man's face, thinking it looked like an upside-down painting, and saw a line drawn on his forehead. This is called a tilaka. Unlike bindi, which even Muslims sometimes draw as decoration, tilaka is a religious symbol that indicates a religious sect by its color and shape. Judging from the shape on the man's forehead, we assumed that he belonged to a sect that believed in the god Vishnu.
| Nov 2011 INDIA PEOPLE | |
| BALD FACE FOREHEAD MAN PUNE TILAKA |
Similar photos
PHOTO DATA
No
5905
Shooting Date
Sep 2010
Posted On
November 17, 2011
Modified On
January 4, 2024
Place
Pune, India
Genre
Portrait Photography
Camera
CANON EOS 1V
Lens
EF85MM F1.2L II USM
