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They welcomed everyone with the traditional 'tika' on our foreheads, made with the paste of turmeric and rice.

Bianca Jagger: Undermining Human Rights in the Name of Development 2010

They give me a bouquet of scented flowers and welcome everyone by putting the traditional "tika" on our foreheads, made with the paste of turmeric and rice.

The battle for Niyamgiri 2010

Dozens of families brought all cooking material including stove, coal etc for preparing traditional foods especially barbeque like 'tika' and 'sekh kababs' on the occasion.

unknown title 2009

"No rituals of a wedding were performed at the meeting," he told Nihita's mother applied a 'tika' on Sobhraj's forehead as a blessing during the tenth day of Dussehra, while Sobhraj offered the same to Nihita, in a ritual also performed by hundreds of other inmates at the prison, officials said.

rediff.com 2008

"No rituals of a wedding were performed at the meeting," he told Nihita's mother applied a 'tika' on Sobhraj's forehead as a blessing during the tenth day of Dussehra, while Sobhraj offered the same to Nihita, in a ritual also performed by hundreds of other inmates at the prison, officials said.

rediff.com 2008

Sanghatissa, required some elucidation, and therefore inserted a passage in the "tika," by which his poem was accompanied, to explain that the motive of its erection was "_for the purpose of averting the dangers of lightning_." [

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

Love tika-taka as much as the next guy, but I also admire organized, disciplined defending that arguably looks boring to the untrained eye and Inter gave a defensive clinic at the Camp Nou; Gijon were also thoroughly impressive in that regard.

How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams 2011

It's the way Xavi, Barcelona et. al. and all the Spain/ tika-taka devotee's look upon anything else as vaguely heretical.

How do you like your sour grapes, Señor Xavi Hernández? | Richard Williams 2011

Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters A Hindu devotee was decorated with 'tika', colored powder and rice used as a blessing, during the Janai Purnima festival in Lalitpur, Nepal, Saturday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

(Chicken tika masala goes remarkably well with Guinness Stout.)

After Hours in Jakarta Steve Mollman 2010