{"id":10696,"date":"2015-11-10T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:02:07","slug":"strangers-nos-17-and-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10696","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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025828133_7364818b89_c-1.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025790954_4f4689a627_c-1.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11025651165_961a3211f9_c-1.jpg?resize=531%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" 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":10469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2211,2213,2215],"tags":[2216,1256,1002,2253,2266],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-girls","category-women","tag-100-strangers","tag-girl","tag-kolam","tag-portrait","tag-woman"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11025828133_7364818b89_z.jpg?fit=425%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}