Kolam

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M.R. Vishnuprasad
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M.R. Vishnuprasad
Neelamperoor Padayani is a ritual festival held at Neelamperoor, Kuttanadu taluk, Alappuzha district, Kerala. It is a fifteen-day long festival in which various effigies of human and nonhuman figures are created and performed. There are different kinds of performances in Kerala and Neelamperoor…
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M.R. Vishnuprasad
Padayani, also called Padeni, is a traditional folk dance and a ritual art form of Kerala performed in Bhagavati temples. Translated as a 'row of warriors', Padayani is an art form that blends music, dance, theatre, satire, masks and paintings. There are different kinds of Padayani performances in…
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Dr Ketaki Chowkhani
                                        My marriage was arranged because of kolam. I make good kolam. So everyone saw and aunty said that I saw your kolam and I want you be my daughter-in-law. ~ Swathi   Kolam, an ephemeral form of daily ritual art, practiced almost solely by Hindu women in Tamil…
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Anni Kumari
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Shefali Rathi
  Kolam is a beautiful, renewal performing and visual art that has a deep-rooted connection with nature and ecology. Vijaya Nagarajan in her writings on ritual practices in Hinduism has referred to kolam as the ritual of ‘embedded ecologies’. She states that rituals like kolam serve the purpose of…
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Anni Kumari
  Kōlam is a daily women’s ritualistic art form created by Tamil Hindu women throughout Tamil Nadu in southeastern India. Each day before dawn, during the Brahma muhurtam (believed to be the time when Brahma and all other deities descend to the earth) and sometimes before dusk, millions of women in…
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Anni Kumari
This module is a study of kolam, an everyday ritualistic floor art form practiced mostly by Hindu women from Tamil Nadu. It offers a glimpse of the various stages in kolam making in both urban and rural settings in the cities and towns nearby Chennai and Pondicherry along with images of kolam copy…
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  M.D. Muthukumaraswamy: I want to ask you about the title of your article, 'The Honest Body' (published in Voyages of the Body and Mind: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond, eds. Anita Ratnam and Ketu H. Katrak, Cambridge, 2014). What do you mean by 'honest body' and is there something…
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