Pongal 2023: The festival of harvest will be celebrated between January 15-18. Pongal celebrations will take place with full enthusiasm in South Indian states, especially in Tamil Nadu. Those who are ...

IPOH: As Deepavali draws near, traders selling various types of ready-made decorative items for kolam at the popular Little India stretch here are seeing brisk business. In the weeks leading up to the ...

Every grain of rice sprinkled in the making of a kolam is like a prayer or a wish. Ruben Prakash knows that once Deepavali ends, the intricate patterns formed by the thousands of colourful grains will ...

This Margazhi morning sent me into a state of nostalgia as I drew a simple ezhai kolam in my apartment corridor. It brought back all those fond times and tiny tales told to me by family elders during ...

Telling stories through intricate kolam designs, Hema Kannan is bringing cheerful reasons to pursue this art for better mental health. "I try to share this ephemeral art form to bring positivity in ...

Rangoli (kolam or muggu) patterns show highly conserved geometric shapes to those observed in nature. The fact that they may have metaphysical relevance is an interesting idea and needs to be ...

CHENNAI: Even the simplest pleasures in life are not without the implicit bias we hold towards it. A sari-clad young woman inspires certain stereotypes, a degree in engineering brings with it a bagful ...

More than 100 participants try their hand at creating the finest patterns at Mylapore. As she finished recreating the design she put on North Mada Street on a piece of paper to be submitted to the ...

Pongal celebrations date back at least 2,000 years old as evidence suggests that it was celebrated even during the medieval Chola Empire days. Pongal is celebrated in Tamil Nadu and is a form of ...

The inauguration ceremony of Biden-Harris kickoff with auspicious Kolam drawings. Kolam, a traditional Indian art form of drawing geometric patterns on the floors as a sign of welcome, was part of the ...