Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks
Superbowl Sunday is just around the corner. Spice it up with Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks, an ideal appetizer when hosting a home TV sports event gathering like  Superbowl . It can be an appetizer crowd pleaser for Superbowl Sunday or side dish to a Bollywood themed dinner or a Bollywood Movie night.
Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks are easy to make and delicious on its own or as an entree to a dinner menu. Not only is it tasty and tender but Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks are marianated with healthy natural ingriendients like garlic, ginger, turmeric and yogurt. These ingredients promote a healthy digestive system.

Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step One
Ingredients to chop in blender to make a yogurt based marianade.
1 inch ginger root
7 or 8 garlic cloves
1 hot red chilli
1 1/2 tablespoon plain yogurt
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tsp red wine vinegar
a bunch of cilantro leaves
 a bunch of parsley leaves
some mint leaves (optional)
quarter red onion
fresh lemon juice(one small lemon)

Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step Two
Ingredients for spice
in a heated frying pan with some vegetable oil take off stove and add
 1 1/2 tablespoons of hungarian or spanish paprika
1 tablespoon garam masala powder
1 /2 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder(more if you want it hotter)
1/2 teaspoon cumin powder
pepper and 1/2 teaspoon salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon tamarind paste
sprinkle cinnamon and clove powder

Put pan back on stove on medium heat . Do not fry spices. Just mix into a thick paste by adding a tiny bit of water and olive oil .Take pan off the heat and set aside  as soon as you smell the aroma of the mixed spices . Make sure you do not burn the spices. Taste the mixture to see if it suits your taste or adjust for  salt, chilli powder and/or vinegar proportions. In the same pan
then add the blended marianade yogurt mixture to the spices and mix well..

Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step Three

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In a bowl  add 6 skinless chicken drumsticks ( all the same size medium to large sized )
Pierce the drumsticks with a fork and sprinkle with salt and scour the drum sticks with a knife and squeeze some lemon juice on each one. Set aside.
Pour the mixed yogurt and spice mixture over drumsticks and make sure it is coated thoroughly. Cover with saranwrap and mariante in refrigerator overnight or for 48 hours for optimal taste.

Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step Four
take marianated drumsticks out of fridge and keep at room temperature an hour prior to baking.
Pre heat Oven to 375 degrees

In frying pan add some vegetable oil and butter to saute the drumsticks. Stir and turn being careful not to burn the drumsticks for about 15 minutes varying from  medium  to medium low.

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Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step Five :Transfer drumsticks carefully to a foiled pizza tray.(Lining with foil makes cleaning the pan after baking easy)

Digitalism's Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step Five

Make sure each piece has adequate marainate on it. Top each drumstick with a small dab of butter.Stick in Oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes turn the drumsticks making sure they are not sticking to foil or getting burned , brush on a little  melted butter on each piece and place back in oven for 25 minutes reducing oven to 350 degrees.Check halfway through to make sure they are not burning. Turn if necessary. Each oven might vary in heat so you may need to cook it for an additional 5 or 10 minutes if blood runs . Take out of oven and check with knife to see if cooked. Just before serving the drumsticks put a little more butter on each drumstick and broil for 5 minutes or until the marianate on drumsticks appear dry and grilled.

Superbowl Bollywood Chicken Drumsticks Step 6

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Garnish with onions and lemons amd fresh cilantro leaves

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blue sapphire and diamond ring in platinum.  The sapphire is a medium dark, slightly violetish blue  with eye clean clarity.
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Gypsy fashion has influenced designers such as Pria Kataria, Neeta Lulla, Vicky Martin Berrocal, Malini Ramani. Robert Cavelli, Anna Sui and especially Giorgio Armani’s 2008 fall collection. 

Giorgio Armani

 What makes the gypsy style endure in fashion?

Vicky Martin Berrocal

Whether it is layered skirts worn over  leggings gathered on the bottom,

Neeta Lulla

 sequined shawls draped over ruffles and lace,

Anna Sui

velvet and silk tunics under denim mirror embroidered boleros and cholis, head topped with feathered turbans,

Pria Kataria

 with  the jingle jangle of gold mixed with silver bangles, multi colored beads

Malini Ramani

 and bells stringed with rope anklets

 with tassels worn over boots…elements of Gypsy fashion is like the Gypsy migration, globally far reaching .

Malini Ramani

The appeal of this free spirited style in fashion signifies the romantic nomad,

Robert Cavelli

the bohemian movement and the spill over from being displaced from one’s birthplace  yet travelling wearing the past heritage mixed with current geographical trends.

Robert Cavelli

Gypsies are the Roma, who originated from India and migrated to eastern  Europe roughly a 1000 years ago.

Pria Kataria

 Linguistic and genetic evidence marks the Romanies to have originated possibly from the Indian state of Rajasthan

Pria Kataria

 then going northwest from the Punjab region then migrating to Europe possibly via Iran.

Pria Kataria

Perhaps through the glamour in the fashion designer’s aesthetic eye popularizing the Gypsy flair,

Malini Ramani

bopa

will some day lessen the discrimination that has been targeted to the Roma ethnic minority communities. Here are some pictures of actual Gypsies.The Kalbeliya and Bopa Women are the Gypsy Queens of  India’s Rajasthan Desert. The Bopa are talented musicians and singers while the Kalbeliya are known as dancers and snake charmers.

Pictures of Roma Gypsies by Patrick Cariou

Kalbeliya

The Gypsies  have influenced the works of fashion designers bringing their style from the countryside to the catwalks and fashion runways.

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David Bowie Faces Phases by Anuppa Caleekal

Nature Boy

Lyrics by Eden Ahbez

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise
Was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
“The greatest thing
You’ll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return”

The song Nature Boy is sung in the beginning of the movie “Moulin Rouge”. In the movie soundtrack the song , Nature Boy is credited to David Bowie.

David Bowie born  January 08, 1947 in Bromley, England, The United Kingdom

David Bowie Faces Phases,  A Photoshop Poster Art by Anuppa Caleekal, 2011 www.digitalism.ca

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Painting: Jimmy Choo, Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky, Photoshop Poster by Artist, Anuppa Caleekal, copyright 2011, www.digitalism.ca
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My paternal grandfather Prof. C. J. George (Caleekal John George) was a distinguished scientist born May 22, 1898 in Chengannur, Kerala,India. In spite of having left India when I was very young, the endearing memories I have of my grandfather are strong and vivid limited however to the few brief visits I had with him during my interlude of travels to India while living here in Canada.

 All through my formative years I would diligently correspond with him discussing various facets of life through letters right up until I gave birth to my daughter, Tania.  As I glance at this one particular letter from him dated February 20th 1985, it became significant it would be one of the last letters I would receive from him. This letter was written shortly before his demise a quarter century ago. Those were the days of hand written letters antiquated by a postage stamp. The personality reflected in the signature seeped through the ink, the hidden force behind the stroke of the hand revealing his inertia driven by his original kinetic style. The handwritten script was the personal and common means to communicate  in the pre Windows 95 era. How old and obsolete this letter looked as I struggle to read my grandfather’s handwriting. In comparison to his earlier letters the writing seemed to clearly deteriorate and was in battle with the harsh turbulent reality of aging. This last handwritten letter from him looked wrinkled and the ink although water stained, hauntingly seemed to still have a pulse.
 
He was a strong man, with a domineering almost intimidating personality yet a surprisingly shy, gentle undercoating almost like a loner’s complex camouflaged beneath an exterior confident steel armor. His gait was brisk, adventurous and always decisive in action, perfectly fit to grasp the best opportunity in a random selection of time, space, diligence and luck.  He was always well groomed having a very charismatic Napoleonic fashionable demeanor about him. At the  same time his style cloaked an intellectual vigor of a genius, with the nonconformity of a juggler’s skill to balance risk with radical conservatism. He was truly a visionary in all respects, ahead of his times, yet so well grounded.
As a child I admired Caleekal John George and continued to do so throughout my life primarily because my grandfather , like  my father John Caleekal George (http://www.physiology.ws/j_c_george.php) were both very learned men, both zoologists and in spite of their very rational and scientific methodology in which they were trained ,  both were very poetic in their expression and analysis of life. They were not mere scientists but writers and public speakers of science so when they thought and spoke of science and their work, it was with passion, almost a love affair with the discipline as it applied to their overall worldview.

 As a child I admired their rigid devotion to study, the power of the pen and words. I have memories of both my father and my grandfather writing and writing endlessly into the night, publishing their scientific research well past retirement age and producing a bright and inspired flock of a vast new generation of PhD graduates.

My father left India for the West permanently in 1967 and settled in Canada with the family consisting of my mother, myself and two elder brothers. The year 1967 was also the year my grandfather retired as Professor of Zoology at Karnataka University in Dharwar, Mysore, India.
Education was always one of the highest priorities in our family and it was only when I was much older did I come to know that my grandfather went overseas in 1926 to complete his PhD at the London Imperial College of Science which was founded in 1907.

I thought to myself how remarkable this was and the genetic strengths he must have had attributing to his determination, courage and ambition. It was an incredible feat especially because he was born into very humble roots and to then follow through with a dream and embark on that voyage overseas was brave. It must have been very difficult in those days to get the resources, and to leave behind his young wife and son, my father who was merely 5 years old at the time.

I thought over and over about his mindset and whether he had a tinge of fear, or was he daring and excited or a combination of it all. To complete higher studies at the London Imperial College of Science and Technology and to be the first in his family to ever go abroad and be formally educated was an incredible seed of accomplishment for then, now and tomorrow. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine as known today (www.ic.ac.uk) is an independent constituent part of the University of London. Today the College teaches many disciplines from science, engineering, medical to management and at the highest level boasting the largest scientific, technological and medical university institution in the UK.

I went back to his last letter hoping to find clues to his Zeitgeist and there he mentioned other Indian fellows who went to study at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine during this same period 1926-1928.The letter revealed a Hemdre Kumar Mukerjee and R.N. Mukerjee both from Calcutta who were his classmates in London. That told me there were other Indian classmates who also went abroad to pursue higher studies.

I tried to imagine India with the British colonial rule and the predominance of the English language and how it would have impacted the Indian educational infrastructure. My paternal side was very eloquent in the English language and my father who was educated in India, spoke primarily in English, so did my grandfather. In fact I hardly heard them speak their mother tongue, Malayalam.

 It almost seems paradoxical that during the British rule over India there were Indians wanting to preserve the British rule, one such Rammohun Roy as early as 1823 being leader of a Calcutta-based Indian middle class proposed English education in preference over the existing Sanskrit system of education and even brought his proposal forth to the Governor General. Then in 1835, twelve years later, Thomas Babington Macaulay who served on the Supreme Council of India put forward his Minute on Indian education convincing the Governor-General to adopt English as the medium of instruction in higher education from the sixth year of schooling onwards. The Minute read:
“It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay,_1st_Baron_Macaulay)

So with the foundations of a bilingual colonial India being set in 1835 what also followed was the derogatory term “Macaulay’s Children” or “Macaulayism” making reference to people born of Indian ancestry fully adopting the western culture in terms of lifestyle, thought and culture. It started to form a class of Indian people who by being educated in English would as Macaulay envisioned would then serve as, “vehicles for European scientific, historical, and literary expression“(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay,_1st_Baron_Macaulay)

This was the educational and intellectual setting in India half a century prior to my grandfather’s birth. Also relevant to his skills in adapting to the British educational system I believe would also be that my grandfather hailed from the Syrian Christian orthodox religious background, making it easier to adapt to Christian mission schools.
My grandfather in 1917 was a student in the Madras Christian college .In 1932 C.J. George got a position to teach Zoology and research at Wilson College in Bombay, also a  Mission College and was there for many years until he took up a position at American College in Madurai until 1963. Then 1963 until 1967 he was Head of the Zoology Department at Karnataka University in Dharwar, Mysore, where he retired and stayed until his death. 
 In his intermediate days he was student at the Madurai American College and a student of the Madras Christian College for his undergraduate Honors course of studies in Zoology. Role models such as Principal Zumbro of the American College and Dr. Skinner, Principal of the Madras Christian College played an influential impact upon C.J George to serve in a mission College such as Wilson college as opposed to private industry or government. He referred to Dr. Skinner as “a godly man” who he later visited at Aberdeen when he went abroad to study at the London Imperial College.

1922-1930 my grandfather, Caleekal John George worked in the Agricultural College at Coimbatore in the Entomology section. It was with a two year study leave he joined the entomology department in Imperial College of Science and Technology.

Caleekal John George seated far left on bench arm

The early 20th century reflected the rise of applied biology and a strong orientation toward agriculture and thus this was also closely associated with the growth in various new disciplines such as entomology. Applied biology was becoming significantly important especially to agriculture and economically important problems which required application of biological knowledge. This impacted Zoology as it became synonymous with entomology with roots stemming from agriculture. In many ways this same cycle holds true today as biological science reverts to emphasis in agriculture and the world as we know it today in 2011 being impacted by global warming and economically important problems such as providing a sufficient world food supply not only for developing countries but now for the developed world as well. The discipline of entomology no doubt continues to be significantly important to the subject of food supply as man battles changes in weather in the realm of survival of the human species. 

I recall hearing both through letters and in conversations the importance in having a solid understanding of structure, form and function in understanding the onset of disease and breakdown. This understanding was the key to how biological principles governed many aspects of human and animal development over time in evolution. Physiology was drilled into me both by my father and grandfather at a very young age as the primary field in understanding how we as humans conduct our lives in stress, conflict and peace. In the last letter my grandfather never failed to emphasize this again about “medical men” and how they prescribe ” blood pressure medications” without understanding physiology and that its ironic that all his “medical classmates were the first to depart”. The “stress” factor has physiological repercussions, almost to say that we can bring it upon ourselves consciously to biologically breakdown. With an abhorrent ignorance of physiology there is then a trend to believe in the power of medical prescriptions and pharmaceutical wonder drugs for quick fixes.  Knowing this about his beliefs it would be easy to predict that he would go through life never consulting a medical doctor for any personal ailment. Morphological structure and form was for him basic to the understanding of function and physiology.

In London at the Imperial College of Science and Technology Caleekal John George did his PhD thesis on “The Morphology and Development of the Genetalia and Genital ducts in Homoptera and Zygotera”. This work was published in The Quarterly Journal of Microscopial Science (1929). ( See http://jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/s2-72/287/447.pdf
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/s2-72/287/447.abstract      Also page 9
 http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-43/4/local/back-matter.pdf)
For this work he received significant attention and the research was summarized in the May 4 issue of the Journal, Nature. Also he received the prestigious recognition of his work when it was included by Imms in the first edition of his book, Recent Advances in Entomology” which still stands as the classic textbook in Entomology. 

C.J. George was known to be the first to open his students and colleagues in india to the field of animal physiology which until then was under the study and domain of scholars solely within the medical profession. This indeed opened up a radical new branch of study in the University of Bombay. It was C.J George’s students who comprised the first batch of students who took the M.Sc degree in Zoology by “Papers” in the university of Bombay.

 C.J George also was noted to start, The Journal of Animal Morphology and Physiology

By the time my grandfather was born in 1898 not only was there a strong influence of British culture among the Indian intellectual class, but the first seeds of Indian nationalism were also starting to be  planted in India both in terms of politics and in the development of science.  1885 was a turning point and significant with the founding of the Indian National Congress, a secular political party opposing British rule.

By the time my grandfather would have returned from studies at the London Imperial College, The Indian National Congress became a mass political party wanting independence from Britain and an autonomous self- ruling government and an Indian nationhood. There were two strains developing in the Indian National Congress , one was led by Subhas Chandra Bose stressing violence being justifiable against colonial oppression, the other was non-violence or ‘satyagraha’ headed by Mahatma Gandhi. By 1930 Ghandian nationwide movements were being organized better than the early efforts seen in 1920-1922 and  the Indian National Congress was thereafter soon to be established as the country’s dominant political party leading the way to independence in 1947.
(Source)http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/independence1947_01.shtml
 
In terms of science, a turning point was the establishment of The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) which is a premier scientific organization originally founded in 1914 in Calcutta. The Indian Science Congress Association was established interestingly not by Indian scientists but two British chemists, Professor J. L. Simonsen and Professor P.S. MacMahon. The Indian Science Congress Association was established along the same lines as the British Association for the Advancement of Science but with the objective to promote scientific research in India. 
 Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Science_Congress_Association

By the time my grandfather had returned to India from London and was teaching and doing research at Wilson College, the importance of science for India’s national development was very clear. The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) was all the more strengthened with the political emergence of Jawaharlal Nehru who “In 1937, on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Indian Science Congress  reaffirmed: ‘Even more than the present, the future belongs to science and to those who make friends with science and seek its help in the advancement of humanity’ (cited by Rajesh Kochhar ,Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore, India)http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb25/articles33.htm

It was not until Nehru came into power with India’s independence in 1947 that he was able to carry forth his bigger plans for India’s scientific development on a large scale nationally with scientific exchange and learning at the international level.

When I look back at my grandfather’s life as I know there must have been a real crossroad in his life in 1967. He was retiring and received a grant from India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research scheme keeping him affiliated with the Zoology Department at Karnataka University for an additional 5 years. In his eyes he would have seen the whole picture of India grow to such heights in terms of scientific growth and become independent from colonial apron strings.

When my father

John Caleekal George

 J.C. George left India in 1967 with us to permanently settle in Canada I wonder what must have gone through my grandfather’s mind. I know he did not want his son to leave India. Not because of selfish reasons but because he viewed the future of the West as empty and the opportunity and future he thought lay ahead in a brave new emerging India. The same old saga must have haunted him seeing his son go West for Big Science as he too had done once upon a time. The only difference was my grandfather went only once to the West, and never went back. My father left India and went to the West three times and the third time never came back to India.  I am sure my grandfather would have had a physiological explanation for my father’s quest and tryst with his destiny in Canada. Just like he humoured himself with a poem he wrote entitled, “Hormones” explaining why we are the way we are.

                                          
Hormones

by C.J. George

A stalwart Stalin can you imagine of without thyroxin?
A Churchill so chill to boil without adrenalin?
A Lenin with very little of potent pituitrin?
An Antonio or Gladstone without testosterone?
A Subash Bose without a full dose of all those?
Or a Nehru so true to all his manly crew?
All hormones in plenty for an admirable Awati
At last a pinch of each for a small Murti
Remember no woman will be of elegance without Oestrin
Nor any human shrine without endocrine.

This article is dedicated to my daughter Tania John(  M.Sc, University of Guelph). Tania John is the great grand daughter of Caleekal John George..
Caleekal John George leaves behind three surviving daughters Grace, Ivy and Maggie, his 14 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren one of which is my daughter Tania John, and 4 great great grandchildren. In loving memory I pay tribute to those that are no more, my dear grandfather Caleekal John George, his sister, “Mavi” his wife Ann George, and their two sons Varughese and John Caleekal George

This article is dedicated to my daughter Tania John ( M.Sc, University of Guelph).

An exciting trend of regal cultural fusion in women’s fashion marks the times as the internet makes it seamless for cross cultural transfer, e-commerce  and virtual mobility across the globe. With the Royal wedding over, many are still left in awe from the aura of Kate Middleton’s royal wedding dress. Currently inspired replicas of Kate’s wedding dress are being sketched on the drawing boards and made to be quickly available at exclusive bridal salons. The delicate simplicity of Chantilly lace seen in Kate’s wedding dress is also seen in the fashion lines of designers such as Bisma Ahmed who has a flair for fusion designs combining regal cultures.

Kate Middleton’s royal wedding dress designed by Sarah Burton from the British fashion house of Alexander McQueen was a luxurious fusion of classical and traditional coy simplicity, British royalty intertwined with a neckline of modernity indulging us into a bodice of English and French Chantilly lace. The royal wedding dress was absolutely breathtaking, trending a regal cultural fusion of the old and the new. The art of fusion is a skill mastered only by the highly talented who have the meticulous craftsmanship, a dreamer’s spell bounding vision of exquisite cultural elegance and a magician’s ability to deliver a creation. Such is the talent of upcoming fashion designer Bisma Ahmed, winner of Dubai Fashion Week’s Emerging Talent.

Bisma’s regal and feminine fashion line called BZMA is now trending as a royal cultural fusion not only of the old and the new but also draws from the seemingly opposite eastern and western fashion hemispheres. 

Bisma Ahmed’s fashion line BZMA is an intriguing fusion of rich regal Mughal culture meshed with the Elizabethan era and was recently displayed on the runway at the Islamabad Fashion Week 2011 with her Spring/Summer 2011 collection, “Chantilly Lace & a Pretty Face”.

Inspired by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Reem Acra, Amato of Furne One and John Galliano, this  young designer has a distinct signature style of her own. Through the internet, her work has drawn a wide appeal in countries across the world such as the Middle East, Europe, US and Canada.

Digitalism Magazine is proud to profile some of Bisma Ahmed’s design collections in realm of the current trends and appeal for Chantilly lace as seen on Kate’s Royal wedding dress. Bisma Ahmed’s fashion line BZMA is a definite focus of multicultural fusion for those style watchers here in Canada and overseas.

The BZMA line will be available online and the label is currently available in Dubai and Pakistan with plans to expand to the UK and USA by September 2011.

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 Bollywood movies have popularized many facets of Indian culture into the mainstream of the global online market such as Indian jewellery, fashion, dance and music. The bindi adorns the foreheads of many Indian women especially in Indian and Asian weddings, more specifically in Hindu weddings. Bollywood glamour has revived the bindi and inspired the look of many celebrities in the western world especially in the music scene. The bindi has evolved from its powder and liquid forms to stickers and has virtually become a fashion jewellery accessory bringing back vintage beauty with a modern allure.
For many Indian women of South Asian Hindu descent Indian bridal jewellery includes a myriad of bindi designs bejeweled with a dazzling illumination.
 Whether your style and elegance is either bold or subtle, your entrance wearing an Avaa bindi will steal the show. Avaa’s crystal bindis including the award winning Jazzy Bindi Collection is not only tempting but a must have addition to your fashion accessories.
Avaa Bindi Bridal Jewellery, includes the Jazzy Bindi collection which can be purchased as individual pieces or as a set.

AVAA Bindi Bridal Jewellery

At Avaa, an online accessories store brings together fashion from the U.K with an assortment of beautiful crystal bindi bridal jewellery as well as gold and silver body transfers giving bridal attire that added edge to a stunning next level.

At Avaa you can purchase the Jazzy Bindi collection in a beautiful presentation gift box available online with 14 crystal bindis in different colour combinations. Orange, red, royal blue, black, rose pink, turquoise and purple are some of the colours to name a few. The bindi sizing varies from 2-3cm. and is made using Swarovski elements. It may be offered as a special gift set with a bindi to match every occasion.