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69South Indian Floor Drawings - 4
Drawing floor drawings (kolams) is interesting and can be fun. With an array of dots kolams can be drawn to different levels of complexities. Simple kolams can be drawn by using small loop od lines arranged...
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84Kolam - The Traditional Floor Drawing of South India
Kolam is a drawing generally drawn at the entrance of a house or any other building. This is a very old practice in South India. Dried rice flour or other types of wkite powders are used for drawing kolams....
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86Anuradhapura, Ancient Capital City of Sri Lanka.
Anuradhapura is the oldest capital city of Sri Lanka. This is situated about 205 km. notrh of Colombo the present capital of the country. Anuradhapura was established in 4th century BC and continued upto the...
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66Kolam - South Indian Floor Drawing - 3
In some of my earlier hubs, I introduced some traditional floor drawings known as kolams. Those kolams were drawn based on dots in specific grid patterns as guides. Kolams can also be drawn guided by...
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67Kolam - South Indian Floor Drawings - 2
South Indian floor drawing patterns are drawn either with an array of dots or without it. This page shows some examples of these patterns drawn using dots. Shown above are two small kolam patterns. First...
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72A Kolam Pattern with Single Continuous Line
Fig.1 shows a Kolam pattern known as "IDAYAK KAMLAM". "Idayam" means "Heart", the word "Kamalam" denotes "Lotus". In this Kolam the heart is represented by Lotus. Here the kolam is based on dots drawn in 8...
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68Global Village, Dubai
Originally Global Village has been started as part of the month long Shopping Festival in Dubai. Several countries from allover the world participated and established stalls selling various goods from their...
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87Palaces of South India
South India has a long history. Currently, South India is part of India includes four states namely, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala. In the past this region had been broken into many small...
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72Raja Ravi Varma - Famous Indian Painter
Raja Ravi Varma one of the most famous Indian painter. He was born in a keralite royal family. He learned painting from Indian painters and later from a British painter. The knowledge he acquired both from...
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66Ancient Buildings and Sculptures of Mamallapuram in South India
Mamallapuram was a florishing port city, during 6 to 9 centuries A.D, in the modern indian state of Tamil Nadu. Pallava dynasty was powerful during this period in this region and a regional architectural style...
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