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This age-old tradition has now adapted to new practices. Earlier only married Bengali Hindu women played Sindoor Khela but now this tradition sees participation from not just the married but single women from different ethnicities. Sindoor-Khela or the age-old vermilion game is as old as Durga Puja itself. This Bengali Hindu tradition is religiously followed by the married Hindu women who smear each other’s faces with sindoor on the last day of Durga Puja i.e. Vijaya Dashami. The sindoor is first applied to the goddesses’ feet and only after that married women of the society come forward to indulge themselves into this blissful game of joy. Just like the other joyful activities and traditions followed in the Durga Puja, sindoor khela also holds quite an integral aspect in every Bengali wom
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