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Jadai Alangaram

            When I was trying to pen a few words on Jadai Alangaram, I did a search in google and I found the following passage in The Little Magazine in a story "Naga Pushpam" by Lakshmi Kannan. I cannot explain Jadai Alangaram better than Lakshmi Kannan. I reproduce the following description of Jadai Alangaram from Lakshmi Kannan's Nagapushpam

"Special days such as Sankranti, Deepavali, Dussehra and Navaratri. The little girls of the household would be dressed in sparkling silk pavadais with matching blouses. The elderly women of the household, that is the mothers, grandmothers or the aunts, would then adorn the girls with ancestral pieces of family jewellery and stand back to fondly admire the loveliness of their efforts. In addition, they would also do a jadai alankaram. They brushed the hair of the girls till it shone, braided it, then decorated it in myriad ways with a variety of flowers — different kinds of jasmine, roses, kanakambaram and of course, the odorous green southern wood, the marukkozhundu. Occasionally, they would also include Nagapushpam, work lovely patterns on it with other flowers. Using a needle and thread, they stitched the flowers over the sword-shaped petals of Nagapushpam. Then, the strong odour of Nagapushpam would easily dominate the rest of the flowers, penetrating the nostrils. It never failed to attract attention."

Now Ready Made Jadai Alangaram is available in the market costing about Rs 150/- . This scene at Koyambedu Market

Taken on: April 2, 2006

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Camera: NIKON E4300, f/2.8, 1/8 sec, 8mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Exposure Time:	0.125 sec (1/8)
Focal Length:	8mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Nikon Browser 6.1.0 W
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