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Mrs Lakshmi Devi once said that rangOli had its origin from the words ranga and oli,
meaning ranga's favour or blessing. The following song originated from this.
I am reasonably good in writing Telugu poems and songs. Though Kannada is my mother
tongue, my proficiency in these aspects is very limited. Please keep this in mind.

An iKolam member is looking for fabrics that are used in making the Kathakali (male+female) costumes (in India or other places). Could someone please let us know about the different places that he could contact regarding his Kathakali constumes?

Congratulations to Mrs Sumathi and Mrs Brindha.

I am enclosing a picture in this blog where my work (slightly modified from
the earlier - top and bottom interchanged, inside ones rotated by 20 degrees
and a central black circle added), the photograph (the same as given in the
url of Mrs Brindha), the satellite view from Google, and a front view of the

WE ALL THINK THAT WE HAVE ONLY ONE MOTHER BUT ALONG WITH OUR OWN MOTHER WE SHOULD RESPECT GOMATHA(COW) , BHOOMATHA(MOTHER EARTH) , DESAMATHA (ONE'S OWN COUNTRY) , VEDAMATHA (GODDESS OF KNOWLEDGE).. IN THIS WAY WE ALL HAVE PANCHA MATHAS I.E, FIVE MOTHERS ...

SO YOUR HOMEWORK IS TO PASTE THOSE FIVE MOTHERS IN A SHEET OF PAPER AND UPLOAD IT

HERE IS AGAIN A TABLE FOR MATCHING
here u need to know + , -, * , / ......i am giving one example here. as per that example try to match the following table.

eg: saptha rishis(7 saints)- nose = shatripus(six enemies) 1)kama---desire ,
2)krodha---anger 3)lobha --- greed 4)moha --- ignorance 5)mada --- pride

Tommorow may 6th is ESHWARAAMBA day and it is celebrated as even BALVIKAS DAY also. ESHWARAAMBA is SWAMI'S MOTHER. I thought I will give some match the following. In this table there are some names of mothers & sons so try to match them...

MOTHERS - SONS

1)LEELAVATHI---------- A) GANESH

Just a quick reminder: I see that some of our members have uploaded image files that are not of either gif or jpg format. Please remember that although we do know how to extract images from most of the other formats like Powerpoint or pdf, we don't work with those files because it is a round about way of working with images, and happens to be time consuming.

When I was writing about songs in the poem, I forgot to mention.
With paruchUri SrInivAs (stationed in Germany and a veritable walking
encyclopedia on the golden age of Telugu film music), I wrote an appreciation
in Telugu on yesteryear's playback singer, A M Raja, commemorating his 80th
birth anniversary and 20th death anniversary. There are fourteen songs (some

When heaven is here ...

A book of poems to read and ruminate
an album of songs to hear and enjoy
a vision of rangOlis to see and admire
and you beside me
and I beside you
touching and smiling
joking and laughing
teasing and pleasing
and the sky above with birds flying
and the wind murmuring in between
and the evening colours fading

cukkalanu peTTAnu cakkagA chErchAnu
ikka Doka muggugA okkaTiga kalipAnu

cukkalaku rxEnivale cakkanagu rAyaDA
ikkaDaku rAvEla okkaTava vELa yidi

pUjalaku nA hRudini pUchinavi kamalAlu
nI charaNa kamalAla nEnuMtu prEmatO

raMgutO niMpavA ramaNatO nI muggu
dEhamidi nIkegA mOhanA rA dariki

చుక్కలను పెట్టాను చక్కగా చేర్చాను