Word: naji
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...Wedding Costume. Inquiry revealed that Odia's wife was a young woman named Naji, who came from another village and was not herself a Shakta. One night Odia told her to put on her wedding costume, a black kanchalia and a billowing scarlet skirt, scarlet headshawl, heavy silver bangles, toe rings and silver nose ring. Odia then placed on her forehead a silver lingam, a highly stylized phallic symbol hung from a silver chain, and led her to a place where, at the behest of a guru (priest), 84 Shaktas and their wives had assembled in a secluded place...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...