Award-winning Indian American artist Shanthi Chandrasekar led a Kolam art installation April 24 at the U.S. Capitol. A Kolam is an Indian art form of geometric patterns, used as a welcome sign. (photo ...

A traditional South Indian art form will head toward the U.S. Capitol to welcome President Biden and Vice President Harris, in part as a nod to Harris’s Tamil heritage. Called a kolam, it will form a ...

Kolam are the detailed patterns drawn on the ground outside houses in India. At Kolam in Newtown, the word also refers to the delicacy of the blends of spices in the regional cuisine of the vast ...

To welcome the US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on inauguration day (January 20), the Indians abroad are making thousands of kolam tiles at US Capitol to help heal ...

Washington: Kolam, an Indian art form of geometric patterns used as a sign of welcome, was part of virtual kick-off ceremony of the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden and ...

The artistic mapping project has helped more than 5,000 women earn a sustainable income in six districts of Tamil Nadu TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, India, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Outside her house ...

Shanthi Chandrasekar, a Maryland-based multimedia artist, took the more than 2,000 pieces of decorated cardboard sent to her by people across the country to create a welcome mat of sorts for Vice ...

Architecture, art, music, food and stories are the essence of what forms and keeps a community together, says social anthropologist Yasmin Hales, who has launched her exhibition - Talking Streets - at ...

Now you might think all Indian restaurants are the same but Kolam in Tooting is somewhere which really does offer something different. Raja, the owner and chef, prides himself on being able to cook ...

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Outside her house in south India, Maria Victor embarks on a decades-old morning ritual that has turned into a key planning tool for impoverished ...