Happy Deepavali

Deepavali aka Diwali is the festival of lights. Rangolis (Works of art with coloured powder) are made outside doorways and lit up with lamps. A mural on the floor!

The streets too are all lit up beautifully!

 

Linking to Monday murals 

Rangoli

Rangoli is an art form wherein designs are made on the floor, generally at the entrance of homes, especially during festivals, using coloured powder or flowers. 

The one above is made using coloured powder and the one below is made with flowers.

A sign that there is an ongoing festival!

Linking to Tom's Signs2

Rangoli

A beautiful Rangoli outside my neighbour's door.

Rangoli is an art form originating in the Indian subcontinent, in which patterns are created on the floor or a tabletop using materials such as powdered lime stone, red ochre, dry rice flour, coloured sand, quartz powder, flower petals, and coloured rocks. It is an everyday practice in Hindu households, however the colours are preferred during festivals and other important celebrations as it is time consuming. Rangoli are usually made during Diwali or Tihar, Onam, Pongal, Sankranthi and other Hindu festivals in the Indian subcontinent, and are most often made during Diwali. Designs are passed from one generation to the next, keeping both the art form and the tradition alive. Wikipedia.

Festival colours

Coloured powder for Rangolis and earthen lamps on sale in Bandra east market.

Maharashtra Day celebrations

Yesterday Maharashtra completed 59 years of Statehood. It was celebrated all over Mumbai, Maharashtra with large processions. I have presented a short clip of the celebrations held in Andheri. Do check it out.

Happy Diwali

The festival of lights has begun. Outside almost every house you will find Rangoli adorned with lamps and lanterns strung outside windows.

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Rangoli in Girgaon.

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Rangoli

Rangoli is one of the most popular art forms in India. It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white powder and colours, and is used commonly outside homes in India. Rangoli can be wall art as well as floor art. The term rangoli is derived from words rang (colour) and aavalli ('coloured creepers' or 'row of colours'). The picture above is a Rangoli made at the entrances to one of the offices in Mumbai where the Puja of Goddess Durga was being held.
The motifs in traditional Rangoli are usually taken from Nature - peacocks, swans, mango, flowers, creepers, etc. The colours traditionally were derived from natural dyes - from barks of trees, leaves, indigo, etc. However, today, synthetic dyes are used in a range of bright colours. The materials used for Rangoli take on either a flat appearance, when a uniform monolayer of powders are sprinkled or a 3-D effect when different sized grains like cereals, pulses etc are used either in their natural colouring or tinted with natural dyes are used.

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