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CHENNAI: It’s 7 am on a cloudy Friday. A group of women and men wearing aprons and ID cards are gathered at Vadapalani Murugan Temple. A couple of them begin by thoroughly cleaning and scrubbing the ...

With Deepavali just around the corner, Ruben Prakash, 38, has been caught up in a whirlwind of activity. As a kolam artist in Kuala Lumpur, he has spent the past few weeks decorating countless Hindu ...

A kolam competition will be held in Thanjavur on January 17 as part of the Pongal festival. The competition which is open to women is being organised jointly by the Indian National Trust for Art and ...

As a child when she was awakened by her grandmother in the early hours of Margazhi days to adorn their doorway a new kolam every day, Shanthi Sridharan didn’t quite guess the creative liberties she ...

CHENNAI: 31-year-old Deepika Velmurugan’s fondest childhood memory is of observing her mother and ammachi (grandmother) chalk the entrance of their home with rice flour kolams. Be it the wavy yet ...

Freelancer, researcher and writer, who is specialising in Indian visual art, Chantal Jumel’s discovery of India has been through art, specifically the floor art of Kerala’s ‘Kalam Ezhuthu’ and Tamil ...