Vaishali A. Patel
Oombaraa Pujan
#WhyDoWe Have you seen women around you cleaning the door frame (Oombaro) and putting kumkum dots or divo by it? Why do we do "Oombaraa pujan" as Hindus? In Bollywood movies, we have all seen the images of a married woman entering her new homes for the first time and kicking the Kalash filled with rice inside the house by taking a step with her right foot in the doorframe. One of the beliefs is that Grains (anaaj or Dhaan) was considered a sign of prosperity, and as the