{"id":70,"date":"2015-11-10T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:31:01","slug":"strangers-nos-17-and-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/10\/strangers-nos-17-and-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers Nos. 17 and 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11025828133\/\" title=\"Indriani and Suttimetta by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025828133_7364818b89_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Indriani and Suttimetta\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Indriani and Suttimetta. In India, it is a common practice for women to get up early in the morning, sweep and wet the pavement in front of their homes, and then, using rice flour (or chalk), create a design called a kolam.  They are generally all different, usually symmetrical, and as far as I can tell, each woman creates roughly the same design every day, though I have observed fancy variants using colored rice flour on special occasions.  <\/p>\n<p>The designs for the kolams are often handed down from one generation of women to the next.  I came upon Indriani teaching her granddaughter &#8211; Suttimetta&#8217;s older sister &#8211; how to make the kolams, but once I started talking to them, the older sister went inside.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11025790954\/\" title=\"Practice by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025790954_4f4689a627_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Practice\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/11025651165\/\" title=\"Practice by TAZMPictures, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025651165_961a3211f9_c.jpg\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Practice\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Indriani and Suttimetta. In India, it is a common practice for women to get up early in the morning, sweep and wet the pavement in front of their homes, and then, using rice flour (or chalk), create a design called a kolam. They are generally all different, usually symmetrical, and as far as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[3,28,29,9,21],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-girls","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-girl","tag-kolam","tag-portrait","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}