The blue evil eye is everywhere — be it as emoji on social media posts or as jewellery. What is behind its charmed growth in India?
In India, dispelling nazar takes all sorts of forms—from putting a black dot on an infants forehead to wearing black threads or tabeez, to twirling a fist of dried red chillies around a person and tossing those in kitchen fire, to hanging a string of lemon and green chillies in front of a vehicle. In the post-pandemic world, a heightened sense of vulnerability seems to have driven a section of people to seek protection in something else—the Turkish evil eye. The nazar boncuk, as it is called, is often made of blue glass and depicted as four concentric circles.
Source: indiatimes.com