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Here is a 6 x 6 dot pattern (or 1 to 11 straight diamond). With a dot pattern like this, if we join in the usual way, we will get six lines (please draw it and convince yourself that it is so). What I did here was - I drew purple lines through orange dots like the two sides of a right angled triangle. These lines are like walls (or mirrors). When we draw lines around the points, we cannot penetrate these walls. With this type of restriction, we get only two lines (the yellow and pink).

Let us consider a knotted pattern (chikku kOlam or melikala muggu) with r points in the row and c points in the columns. This is thus a rxc kOlam.

Bidding adieu to the cold and rainy winter, it is the time to welcome the season of spring with the festival of colors! Wish you all a splashy and a joyful holi!

Normally to draw rangOlis, we use dots for reference. These dots are either arranged in a square or hexagonal pattern to give straight and staggered appearance. Today I drew a rangOli with dots that are nither square nor hexagonal. These dots are arranged in a trapezoidal fashion with less space at the top and more at the bottom. With a 3x5 arrangement of such dots, I drew a sOnA pattern with one line and with four such made a sOna square with two lines. In this arrangement, you will see that the whole pattern looks like four towers of a temple.

I wanted to let you all know that I've passed on my site-administration duties to somebody else for the time being. We'll respond to your emails by the end of this week.
There are a few minor site changes that might take place, and we'll keep you updated as and when required. Thanks.

No, not the real one, just a representation of it as a diagram will do! :0

It's World Kidney day on March 10th. It would be great to make rangolis studded with the popular shape of a kidney and share it with our ikolam friends. Don't you think? Let's have it then. You have the rest of the week to think about it and make it.

Hi everybody,

It appears that the server was down over the weekend. Since I was busy and didn't have access, I couldnt' fix it on time.

Thank you Indra, Sreegiri, Julien, and Suba madam for alerting me about the issue.

Now and then, I have mentioned the name of Bangalore Nagartnamma in some discussions. Bangalore Nagartanamma was born in the family of a dEvadAsi. She was an accomplished dancer and singer. She knew several languages like Sanskrit, Telugu and Tamil besides her mother tongue Kannada. She is known famously for the following: She edited and got published by the vAviLla book publishers the Telugu epic called rAdhikAsAMtvanamu or iLAdEvIyamu written by muddupaLani, a concubine of the tanjAvUr king. It has some erotic verses in it.