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 ...

“I remember my grandmother telling me that when independent India was announced, women of Madras decorated entire roads in Triplicane and Mylapore with large kolams to celebrate,” says Chennai-based ...

As thousands from the US and India take part in a digital kolam collage to welcome US President Joe Biden and V-P Kamala Harris, a practitioner shares the history, relevance and benefits of this ...

CHENNAI: The familiarity of the sikku kolam — with its curved lines of rice flour snaking their way around pullis in perfect symmetry — is shared by many who grew up with these patterns on the ...