Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Bindis on the bathroom wall!


Distribution of bindis on a bathroom wall form a bell-shaped curve with normal but bimodal distribution. The value of the first bindi on x axis gives the height of the person to which the bindis belong! A line drawn from the end of the first curve to the peak value forms the angle A with the axis. This corroborates with leaning forward towards the wall mirror. Angle A is inversely proportional to the health of the spine (h) and to cleanliness of the wash basin (c) given by
Sin A=k/hc where k is a constant
The second curve can be used to calculate the height of the toilet seat after calculating height of the person from first curve.
‘Raw’ data is given below:

A deeper analysis can give other dynamic and non dynamic variables. Second curve is mostly populated by conventional bindis represented by Maroon bindis while the first and the bigger curve has more number of unconventional bindis. One can also get more information about the person’s personality, even a peep into her wardrobe.....

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I grew up in a Hindu household with no girl and my mother was the only lady in the house. After I got married, I started noticing bindis on the bathroom wall. My mother had never used a sticker bindi as she used to put kumkum for the purpose. So I understood that it was my wife’s creation. Gradually,  the canvas started to grow as the number of bindis on the wall increased. One day I asked my wife that why would she stick the used bindi on the wall, rather than discarding it. She told me me that since a bindi is like an amulet or a fetish, that is worn not for identification of a married Hindu woman or for aesthetics or fashion statement only, but also for good fortune, it can not be thrown away in a dustbin. We all know that there are various cultural practices and interpretations of how and why women, even men, wear a bindi on their forehead. Since I found the subject of bindi on forehead to be very deep for me to decipher, I did not venture into it. I ventured to explore only the bindis on the bathroom wall!!

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