I found this young lady standing outside a saree shop at Chandni Chowk.She was wearing an eye-catching green, but it was the hair that drew my attention.
Glossy, long, black hair, tamed into a single braid, a 'choti'.
It is a peculiarly Indian thing, the single choti. There are folk songs dedicated to it. Poets moon about it; the movies celebrate it. The long choti is so strongly associated with feminine beauty that even today, many Indian women are horrified at the thought of cutting their hair short. Me, I've had short hair for the last 20 years, and I can't see myself in braids.
Still, I have to admit, there's something about this girl's hair, the simplicity and the grace of it, the way it falls on her back, that is truly beautiful.
- Deepa
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