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	Sysindia.com - Kolam Section
		Kolam refers to decorative artwork drawn on the floor in front of houses and in front of deities in pooja rooms.
		Kolam is considered as an important form of artistic expression in India.
		Lakshmi Sarathy has won many prizes in various kolam competitions in her school and college days and has participated in various cultural programmes in Singapore.
	www.sysindia.com /kolam/index.html (120 words)

	Kolam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kolam (in Tamil) is a decorative design drawn using chalk by female members of the family in front of their home, especially near the threshold.
		A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots.
		Kolam is not so flamboyant as its contemporary, Rangoli, which is as colorful as it can be.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kolam (386 words)

	Exploring India - Kolam/Mehandi
		Kolam is an auspicious art of decorating courtyards and pooja rooms/prayer halls in India drawn mainly by women and girls.
		This kolam is drawn using dots and in front of the house.
		Rangoli is the most preferred kolam in northern parts of India,where color powders are used to enhance the beauty of the design done by the women.these truly symbolize the indian tradition.
	library.thinkquest.org /04oct/01571/kolam1.htm (599 words)

	IITS-Kolam-Preamble (Site not responding. Last check: )
		KOLAM has been founded with the aim to present a wide-ranging picture of Tamil culture to anyone who is interested.
		The skill in drawing kolams is still one of the criteria on the basis of which a potential bride is judged in rural areas.
		The original Tamil kolam merely consists of white dots around which the intertwined lines are drawn, whereas the North Indian "rangavalli" or "rangoli" is made up of various coloured planes.
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/indologie/kolam/preamble.html (1177 words)

	Kolam and Rangoli designs : Frequently Asked Questions
		Kolam is a form of design or pattern drawn with rice flour on the floor with bare fingers using predetermined dots.
		Kolam is known as Rangoli commonly in many parts of India, Muggulu in Andhra Pradesh, Rangavalli in Karnataka, Chowkpurana in Uttar Pradesh, Madana in Rajasthan, Aripana in Bihar and Alpana in Bengal.
		Kolam is generally drawn on the courtyards, entryways of houses, temples and marriage halls.
	www.ikolam.com /faq (873 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Kolam, Sokari & Nadagam
		In comparison with Sokari, Kolam denotes a further stage in the secularization of indigenous theatre, for it has attained the status of a theatrical grnre, yet not without clear hints of an earlier ritualistic function.
		At the end of the event, which is reached early in the morning, the super naturals are invoked again, so that the players may beg their pardon for errors and imperfections in the performance.
		In the ritual theatres, Kolam and Sokari, “song” was actually a sort of chant or recitative embedded in the regular metrical schemes of folk poetry, melodic compass.
	www.lankalibrary.com /rit/kolam.htm (9813 words)

	Round Dice: Kolam: What The Hand Said
		Girls learn this kolam ritual from their female relatives, and kolam skills are viewed as a mark of grace and as a demonstration of dexterity, mental discipline and ability to concentrate.
		Kolams were a woman's art, and as such, unlikely to have been of interest to male writers.
		In Andhra Pradesh, kolam is "muggu" ('mu' pronounced as in 'murali')& in Kerala, "kalam".
	yet.typepad.com /round_dice/2005/10/kolam_what_the_.html (3226 words)

	Kolams
		Kolams may be linked to the earth, the stars or special festivities, but they are first and foremost a conscious offering to Mother Earth.
		Kolams link the private realm to communal life, hospitality to guests and passersby, the personal and familial to the divine.
		The cradle kolam is drawn and paddy is spread in the middle of the kolam.
	www.auroville.org /environment/villages/vill_kolam.htm (988 words)

	Kolam Arts ~ The budding entrepreneur village women of Sanjeevi Nagar welcome you to their homepage ~
		Kolam is considered as an important form of artistic expression in Tamilnadu.
		Kolams are drawn on the floor, in front of houses and in front of deities in pooja rooms.
		Kolam is also a Mandala which is believed to protect us from unwholesome things and happenings.
	kolam.mohanam.org (232 words)

	Light Millennium: Dances, Masks and Drums of Sri Lanka
		Kolam should be pretty old, but it is still not possible to say when it really started.
		Kolam has a very clear script and characters are introduced in one particular order.
		Every character in Kolam is given a mask and everyone is introduced by the leader before he enters the arena.
	www.lightmillennium.org /3rd_april_03/srilanka_dance_mask_drum.html (2522 words)

	Univ. of Missouri Kolam Large Dataset Viewer
		Kolam is a software package for interactive visualization of massive geospatial datasets and 2D imagery on standard desktop and mobile computers.
		Kolam supports embedded datasets at multiple resolutions ranging from one km global to 30cm urban mosaics that may be hundred of gigabytes to terabytes in size.
		The objective of Kolam is to design a system for interactively viewing large datasets that not only exceed available memory resources but potentially exist only in the secondary storage of a remote system such as a digital library.
	meru.rnet.missouri.edu /mvl/kolam (2201 words)

	CERSER Training Workshops
		Kolam is a tool for visualizing remote sensing datasets that are tens of gigabytes in size with hardware-independent support for adaptive compression and tiled image pyramid organization.
		Kolam uses multithreading, a novel cache management scheme, and is very efficient in terms of texture loading, since the entire viewport clip hierarchy is not updated.
		Kolam is being used for visualizing global multichannel MODIS mosaics with multiple layers that show seasonal variations, global lights, landcover, snow and ice cover, cloud cover, etc. Kolam can perform on the fly mosaicing of orthorectified DOQ imagery and display embedded Landsat and statewide land cover data.
	cerser.ecsu.edu /03events/030403go/trn_01.html (450 words)

	Rangoli (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kolam designs are usually geometrical shapes that are drawn not only in front of houses but also in pooja rooms and during auspicious and religious occasions.
		Rangoli kolams are usually drawn with coarsely ground rice flour and is done with swift deft strokes.
		Kolams during the festival of Pongal are generously dotted with images of the overflowing pongal pot signifying prosperity and plenty.
	www.come2india.org /rangoli.html (548 words)

	Martha Strawn Collection Of Phtographs Of Kolam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most common Kolam design start with dots which are connected to form lines and other geometrical shapes such as swastika, aum, stars, squares, circles, triangles etc. These geometrical shapes must be formed in a continuous, unbroken lines.
		Kolam or threshold drawings as Ms Strawn has called them is a live practice in the entire Tamil Nadu, Parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and some parts of east and northeast India.
		Kolam skills are still considered a mark of grace, dexterity, discipline and concentration.
	www.ignca.nic.in /nl002608.htm (562 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BREBES - Rombongan Komisi A DPRD Brebes dipimpin Sukirso BcHk, kemarin melakukan inspeksi mendadak (sidak) ke kolam renang Tirta Kencana.
		Sidak Komisi A itu berkaitan dengan tewasnya Afifi (12) pelajar SLTP Negeri 1 Tanjung di kolam renang itu, pada 11 Agustus lalu.
		Ini bagaimana?'' kata Agung Sekretaris Komisi A. Melihat kondisi seperti itu, Komisi A menyarankan ke eksekutif agar pengelolaan kolam renang Tirta Kencana diserahkan ke Perusda Pariwisata.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0208/23/dar6.htm (246 words)

	Kolam pictures and videos on Webshots
		Baik2 lalu tepi kolam tu..jgn sampai terjatuhlah pulak.
		Kolam air bersama keladi gajah di dalam courtyard
		Kolam renang kanak-kanak - boleh digunakan untuk aktivi...
	www.webshots.com /search?query=Kolam (169 words)

	Kolam - Threshold Design in South India
		Kolam Interactive "..Generally, a kolam is drawn with bare fingers using predetermined dots...This tradition of decorating with kolams is passed on from generation to generation.
		Girls learn the ritual from their mothers and other female relatives, and kolam skills are considered a mark of grace, dexterity, discipline and concentration.
		Drawing the kolam figures is an important part of the Tamil Nadu culture and landscape.
	www.tamilnation.org /culture/kolam.htm (1794 words)

	Kolam
		Kolam which means "beauty" are floor drawings made of coloured flour and are used for ornamental or ceremonial design during Indian festivities.
		The kolam is usually done by women, as it was the responsibility of the lady to maintain her household.
		There are also tools to help women create their kolam, although the measure of a master is when the kolam is done free-hand.
	infopedia.nlb.gov.sg /articles/SIP_605_2004-12-23.html (525 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the past, the ancient "Kolam" tradition was used by our ancestors to ridicule the ruling class and their kith and kin by shielding their identity in masks.
		He uses the characters of the "Kolam" tradition, transforming and twisting them under dim light to portray the series of events about to be displayed.
		The typical "Kolam" characters normally rouse laughter but in this drama they play a different role to depict the mysterious brutality of a repressed and bleak rural life.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/02/11/artscop02.html (1050 words)

	Ahta Sethu Ammal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A kolam is traditionally made of rice flour (although chalk and sometimes paint are used these days), which is intended to be eaten by ants and other small creatures, a mark of respect for all life.
		Kolams are traditionally made in the early morning, an auspicious time.
		By making a kolam, a woman (and kolam-makers are invariably women) is inviting Lakshmi (and hence prosperity) into her home." Lonely Planet, South India, 1998, p.
	www.ripon.edu /faculty/kaine/01103ahta2.html (194 words)

	IconomaniaRitual Domestic Threshold Drawings, Santhi Kavuri
		Thus the ritual performance of the kolam was infused with the Hindu ideology of the feminine when the macrocosmic acts of the Goddess that produce auspiciousness was connected to the symbolic gesture of creating the kolam on the microcosmic level.
		Therefore, the significance of the Hindu woman´s performance of kolam made by the metaphorical connection to the liminal space of the threshold and the auspicious acts of the Hindu Goddess further infused her identity with the Hindu ideology of the feminine.
		The Hindu woman´s logic for this metaphysical and manifest signification of the kolam with the Hindu feminine was to compel the male dominated pre-colonial society to revere and protect her, thus insuring her social survival.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/arthist/icono/kavuri/kolam.htm (3272 words)

	Jouvert 5.1: Shanthini Pillai, A Portrait of the Imagination as a Malleable Kolam: K. S. Maniam's In A Far Country
		The artist of the Indian kolam normally begins by drawing a series of dots on the floor, which are then consequently embellished by a pattern of uninterrupted lines.
		The kolam that arises from Maniam’s imagination is one that yields to its reproduction in a country far from a motherland.
		Hence, even though the kolam may be Indian in origin, its reproduction in that far country does not merely loop in upon its Indian centre but rather unfurls towards other territories in its new setting.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /Jouvert/v5i1/pill.htm (3051 words)

	DECORATION IN JAFFNA BUILDINGS - CONCEPTUAL AND SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF DECORATION IN JAFFNA
		Drawing "Kolam" is not practiced in Jaffna with the same spirit as it is practiced in Tamilnadu, where it is done in most of the households everyday.
		The practice of drawing "Kolam" has a few accompanied practices in Jaffna and all of these together have relevance to the occasions of "Thirvempavai" in "Markazhi" and "Pongal", the harvest festival of Tamils in "Thai" (the tenth month, according to the Tamil calendar, coincides with the period from mid January to mid February).
		Once the kolam is complete, a small ball of cow dung is placed at the centre of the kolam pattern and a few stems of the grass species "Aruku" is inserted on top of this dung ball.
	us.geocities.com /rmayooranathan/decoration_concept.html (1405 words)

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		It was an attempt to break the earlier record in this category - a kolam drawn by a group of women in Erode on 11,236 sq ft involving 50,178 dots.
		As per the book, a kolam drawn by 25 school students on 24,000 sq ft in 24 hours in Chennai in June 11, 2003 is the biggest.
		On May 1 the group drew a `kolam' on 45,000 sq ft in 9.45 hours as a trial.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005051700510200.htm&date=2005/05/17/&prd=thlf& (209 words)

	Rangoli or Kolam (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rangoli, also known as Kolam in South India, Chowkpurana in Northern India, Madana in Rajasthan, Aripana in Bihar, Alpana in Bengal is the ancient Hindu religious floor art.
		Kolam in South India is done with rice flour.
		The most common rangoli or kolam designs start with dots which are connected to form lines and other geometrical shapes such as swastika, aum, stars, squares, circles, triangles etc. These geometrical shapes must be formed in a continuous, unbroken lines.
	www.hindunet.com /rangoli (170 words)

	Gobar Times Magazine (Environment for Kids Monthly) - Centre for Science and Environment
		Kolam is a traditional Indian folk art widely used to decorate the thresholds and courtyards in front of houses.
		A kolam could be made up of a single, unsegmented, closed thread of line or it could be made up of superimposition of two or more closed threads of lines, each constituting one component of the global kolam pattern.Kolam drawing is practised extensively in South India by women of all ages.
		Children, mostly girls, learn the art of drawing kolam patterns from childhood and could acquire an astonishingly large repertoire of designs, which they can draw readily from memory.
	www.gobartimes.org /gt20030815/fractals.htm (286 words)

	FOLK DANCE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To bring out that aspects each Kolam has special features in face painting which is a work of difficult craftsmanship and is a unique piece of art.
		Just before the Kolam a song describing the history of that particular Kolam and its great strength and holy aspect is sung by a set of people to the accompaniment of chenda and elthalam.
		After the songs are sung the Kolam appears before the assembly of the people, in front of the place of worship.
	www.kalakeralam.com /visual/folkdance5.htm (1173 words)

	Kolams, Traditional Artistic Designs in South India
		Kolams are ornamental designs, which are drawn on the floor with rice powder; lime stone powder and red earth by the South Indian women.
		One exception is the `Pulli kolam` (kolam with dots) in which the pattern is outlined with dots.
		The kolams drawn in the puja room or any place inside the house uses rice flour, as it is meant to serve as food for ants and other small insects.
	www.indianetzone.com /24/kolams_traditional_artistic_designs_south_india.htm (1133 words)

	Rangoli - a tradition-rich artistic expression
		Kolam (in Tamil) is a decorative design drawn using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home, especially near the threshold.
		A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots.
		In olden days, kolams used to be drawn in coarse rice flour, so that the ants don't have to work so hard for a meal.
	www.indianhospitality.com /artncult/rangoli.htm (1212 words)

	Review - Kolam by Mark Morris Dance Group has its NY Premier at B.A.M. by Rajika Puri
		Kolam as the name would suggest, was inspired by Tamilnadu floor painting and included many elements from Indian movement traditions.
		Kolam opens with a couple of dancers either standing on their heads or taking other yoga poses downstage left, as a huge abstract multi-coloured painting is revealed as backdrop and main element of set design.
		Since Kolam is not a weighty masterpiece, it’s a pity that Mr.
	www.narthaki.com /info/reviews/rev106.html (1073 words)

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