{"id":30927,"date":"2022-11-07T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30927"},"modified":"2025-04-16T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:31:55","slug":"indelible-black-ink-or-kali-syahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indelible-black-ink-or-kali-syahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Indelible Black Ink or Kali Syahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indelible Black Ink or Kali Syahi:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The fourth generation of the family now produces the ink every Deepavali.<\/li>\n<li>While the erstwhile royal family used the ink for its official transactions, the businessmen of the princely State used it to write their accounts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Even universities established after Independence awarded degrees written with this ink. The ink was believed to ward off evil and bring prosperity to its users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The ink was made of natural ingredients using a traditional procedure handed down from generations.<\/li>\n<li>The black ink is prepared on a no-moon night with the chanting of mantras.<\/li>\n<li>It is made of kaajal (homemade mascara), gondh (edible gum) and other locally sourced herbal ingredients.<\/li>\n<li>The ink has medicinal properties, as some of its ingredients were used in the traditional Ayurvedic system for the treatment and healing of wounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GARAFTP2C.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping alive a tradition dating back to the reign of the Kachhwaha rulers, a family in the Jaipur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}