Trichy: Considered as an inseparable part of Pongal festival, the sale of ‘kolam’ powder has taken a beating with rain playing spoilsport. The wet weather prevailing in the city for the past few days ...

Pongal, the harvest festival of Tamil Nadu, is celebrated with joy and tradition. This year, the auspicious Tamil festival will be observed from Tuesday, January 14, and will continue until Friday, ...

Drawing patterns on the floor by holding a pinch of kolam powder between your thumb and pointer finger has become a dying art, and the elderly women who are expert in the art, are high in demand ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Kolam, the vibrant and intricate traditional Indian floor art, continues to be a central feature of Deepavali celebrations, adorning homes and temples with its stunning designs. A.

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 ...

Mangalam Srinivasan's Facebook page My Mom’s Art Gallery showcases her kolam designs and has gained her a fan following across the world. She's winning hearts with her kolam, the traditional South ...

CHENNAI: Spotting S Ramakrishnan in his KK Nagar household with a kolam powder box every morning is a more likely sight than him poring over a newspaper while sipping on some coffee. A civil engineer ...

The chanting from a distant temple was the only sound on an otherwise-still winter morning in Chennai. The holy Tamil month of music and devotion, Margazhi, had begun – and every day, in the early ...

Miss S (name changed to protect privacy) had been a difficult patient for 35 years. Dr Kalyanasundaram, honorary CEO of Richmond Fellowship Society in Bengaluru, an NGO that works with people with ...

CHENNAI : Margazhi in Chennai is synonymous with sabha-hopping, piping hot delicacies and early morning pulli kolams. Strings of rice powder, pinched between the thumb and index finger, deftly working ...