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Painted Prayers of India

At this moment I am exactly doing rangoli.

Rangoli is called painted prayers of India.

I am doing rangoli since I was a kid. When I was a kid we had a raised platform in the courtyard especially made for rangoli. We used to buy permanent paints (samples used to come {…}

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celebrating kantha artisans

I was not paying any attention to ongoing Lakme Fashion Week spring summer 2008, Mumbai until I saw this photo feeling a little heaviness around my vocal chords!

It is a rarity, the kind of scene I have not seen before! A fashion designer brought with her kantha artisans {…}

rakhi-the thread of bond

Rakhi-the thread of love and protection:

I do not know of any Indian festival without at least one element of design entwined into it. Rakhi is no exception. In fact it is so laden with crafts and designs that with changing fashion and market new avatars of rakhi keep coming.

The sister ties {…}

windows to the world

From India. With love.

These are carved wooden jharokhas (windows).

In past you could see these jharokhas in lot of Indian homes, in villages, in palaces, everywhere. Now they are mostly used inside the house as wooden frame or just as {…}

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