{"id":1879,"date":"2013-08-09T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2013-08-09T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:12:08","slug":"southern-suburbindia-kolams-and-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Southern SuburbIndia: Kolams and Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every morning, all across southern India, millions of women wake up at sunrise to draw what’s known as a “kolam” at the entrance to their home. \u00a0Kolams are geometric designs hand “drawn” by sprinkling rice flour (or in some cases other substances) on a freshly-swept and watered piece of pavement. \u00a0I see them on my early morning runs, along with any number of other things. \u00a0Every day, something new!<\/p>\n

To give you a sense, I took a walk down a random street in my neighborhood: \u00a0all of the photos below are on a 200 meter stretch of road the view immediately below being from one end.<\/p>\n

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Just for interest, this is the street sign using the standard marking system:
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And here are the kolams:
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The kolam below is larger than normal, as it is drawn in preparation for a wedding to take place over the next few days.
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And last but not least, cows wander through traffic with complete impunity. This one is taking a break at the end of the street.
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Every morning, all across southern India, millions of women wake up at sunrise to draw what’s known as a “kolam” at the entrance to their home. \u00a0Kolams are geometric designs hand “drawn” by sprinkling rice flour (or in some cases other substances) on a freshly-swept and watered piece of pavement. \u00a0I see them on my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[942,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-india","category-random-musings"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}