Festival of India, Toronto

This happy woman is still sitting in the tent where a volunteer artist has just finished decorating her forehead with these beautiful "gopi dots."

 

"Gopi-dots are beautiful designs traditionally painted on the eyebrows and down the sides of the eyes. They are named after the gopis - young and simple village girls who are often revered as the most spiritually deep representatives of bhakti yoga: the yoga of love."

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