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Red dye symbolizes love, fertility, and matrimony. Photograph by Pankaj Nangia, India Today Group/Getty ... to help prevent the gulal from staining. Clothes typically do not survive.

Bandhani is a type of tie-dye textile popular in Gujarat and Rajasthan. The fabric is decorated by plucking the cloth with fingernails into many tiny bindings that form a figurative design.