But for some Indian women from the Apa Tani tribe, their beauty has been more of a vice than a virtue and a source of pain and despondency. According to a news report, Apa Tani women have been the primary targets whenever their community go to war with the neighbouring communities. According to Pete Oxford, a British photojournalist who interacted with the members of the community, women were advised to disfigure their noses so that they can be unattractive to avoid kidnapping. It was decided, by the men apparently, that large nose plugs, of the so-called ‘pig-nosed women’, would render the women so ugly that the raiding parties would no longer want to steal them,” said OxfordThe Indian Apa Tani women now put on the wooden nose plugs that widen their noses so that they can achieve wider noses and ‘ugly’ looks. This has thrown the future of the practice into doubt since most young women are avoiding it.

Source: Standard Digital May 05, 2017 08:52 UTC