It reflects the essential quality of the color itself, in principle white, as a color, repels all light and colors and therefore, when a widow wears white, she disconnects herself from the pleasures and luxuries of active and regular participation in society and life around her. It is the acceptable color at funerals and ceremonies that mark death in the family. White is the absence of color and is the only color widows are allowed to wear. And while white stands for everything desirable in the West, in India it takes on a more somber connotation. ![]() This symbolism is an age-old custom amongst Indians where an infant or, for that matter, anyone looking spectacular is often traditionally blessed with a little black dot on the chin or under the ear to ward off the evil eye. Black is used as a representation of evil and is often used to ward off evil. ![]() It represents anger and darkness and is associated with the absence of energy, barrenness, and death. Black in India has connotations with lack of desirability, evil, negativity, and inertia.
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