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A woman flower seller outside a Nepalese temple. Hindu women with vermillion or sindoor / maang tika (mang tikka) / sindur on their foreheads offer prayers at a temple in Kathmandu city. Nepal is the only Hindu country in the world! Note the vermilion or tika / tikka and rice smeared across the foreheads of these Hindu women in Nepal. A Sadhu with his forehead heavily painted in vermilion red and saffron yellow, on the streets of Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. A woman gives him alms into his bucket, in the form of some money. Sadhu: Sadhus are sanyasi, or renunciates, who have left behind all material attachments and live in caves, forests and temples all over India and Nepal. A Sadhu is usually referred to as Baba by common people. The word baba also means father, grandfather, or uncle in m