<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Dec 6 2008, 07:22 PM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Dec 6 2008, 07:22 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Figures.. I have not seen that much in S. Indian channels either - not yet anyway.
Not sure about the positive side so much, BV. For the impressionable it makes it look normal to be doing that - not just bindhi of course, but overall psecism becomes normal and acceptable. For one who can differentiate, yeah, that's a positive. At any rate, interesting ....[right][snapback]91492[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Don't know the origins of the broadcasts I'd caught which made me comment about the missing pottu/bindi - may have been N Indian - but the language was sadly (predictably) English. I started noticing it after encountering the same channels repeatedly when channel flipping. Back then I didn't draw the connection between English language news (that could make it the year 2000) and the conspicuously missing pottu and other annoying things.
But I do remember Tamizh news having Hindu female presenters: pottu (plus kungumam in the hair parting of many of the women), stating Vanakam/Namaskaram, wearing sari <i>of course</i> (it's Hindu dress), usually flowers in their hair, jewellery, mookuthi (sp?). IIRC some presenters in the news and/or some other Tamizh programs still had the Hindu traditional mardaani on their hands as well. In TN, traditional Hindus - like those of the previous generations even today - have mardaani on their hands and feet at all times and make sure to put it on again before the marks of the previous time are erased. There was even a time in history when Hindu men had mardaani on their hands and feet, at least during the wedding <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Movies used to also bring this practise out. See for instance Sampoorna Ramayanam where not only Sita but Rama too had mardaani on their hands and feet throughout, as did Lakshmi and Mahavishnu (naturally) in the shots of Vaikuntam.
It's certainly always worn by Bharatanatyam dancers and of course mardaani is <i>always</i> applied to the padham of Bhagavan/Ishwara and Amman in Kovils.
Sorry, translation:
Pottu is Bindi
Mookuthi is nose stud
Mardaani is called mehendi in Hindi I think
Kovil is Hindu Temple
Not sure about the positive side so much, BV. For the impressionable it makes it look normal to be doing that - not just bindhi of course, but overall psecism becomes normal and acceptable. For one who can differentiate, yeah, that's a positive. At any rate, interesting ....[right][snapback]91492[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Don't know the origins of the broadcasts I'd caught which made me comment about the missing pottu/bindi - may have been N Indian - but the language was sadly (predictably) English. I started noticing it after encountering the same channels repeatedly when channel flipping. Back then I didn't draw the connection between English language news (that could make it the year 2000) and the conspicuously missing pottu and other annoying things.
But I do remember Tamizh news having Hindu female presenters: pottu (plus kungumam in the hair parting of many of the women), stating Vanakam/Namaskaram, wearing sari <i>of course</i> (it's Hindu dress), usually flowers in their hair, jewellery, mookuthi (sp?). IIRC some presenters in the news and/or some other Tamizh programs still had the Hindu traditional mardaani on their hands as well. In TN, traditional Hindus - like those of the previous generations even today - have mardaani on their hands and feet at all times and make sure to put it on again before the marks of the previous time are erased. There was even a time in history when Hindu men had mardaani on their hands and feet, at least during the wedding <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Movies used to also bring this practise out. See for instance Sampoorna Ramayanam where not only Sita but Rama too had mardaani on their hands and feet throughout, as did Lakshmi and Mahavishnu (naturally) in the shots of Vaikuntam. It's certainly always worn by Bharatanatyam dancers and of course mardaani is <i>always</i> applied to the padham of Bhagavan/Ishwara and Amman in Kovils.
Sorry, translation:
Pottu is Bindi
Mookuthi is nose stud
Mardaani is called mehendi in Hindi I think
Kovil is Hindu Temple