Sindoor khela during Durga Puja exemplifies the collective use of sindoor. During sindoor khela, one of the festival’s most cherished traditions, married women traditionally dressed in red-and-white saris reach the pandals and gather before the murti of goddess Durga to apply sindoor on the goddess’s forehead and then on one another. They also streak each other’s faces with sindoor as a symbol of love, prosperity, and the enduring bond of marriage.
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