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Happy Christmas to all of you and your families with a bunch of love and prayers!
Please check out our members' latest sea of rangolis, during this busy Margazhi season.
"Margazhi 2013" from the top menu displays the latest uploads of some of our members.

We are pleased to announce the annual Diwali rangoli contest results!

Please check it out here:

http://www.ikolam.com/diwali-rangoli-contest-results-2013

The winner of this contest is JyotsnaPathak!

Our hearty congratulations to the winner and to all the participants for putting up such a wonderful and colorful show of designs!

Please take a moment to vote for all of our participants.

http://www.ikolam.com/diwali-rangoli-contest-2013

Questions and comments can be posted below.

(During voting, the selection of stars is automatically saved. You do not have to scroll down to click on "Save" once you've selected on the number of stars during voting for any entry).

We would like to welcome all of the users of iKolam community to participate in our annual Diwali rangoli contest.

Prerequisites:
One or two rangolis in any theme.
Upload by: November 10th.
Results announced on November 15th.

We look forward to seeing your artistic Diwali creations. Please pass on the information to family and friends.

I recently interviewed the rangoli artist, Amirtha Thanam, who lives with her family in Theni, Tamilnadu, near Madurai district. Most of her rangolis that had been shared in ikolam have gotten rave reviews from our members, and have proved to wow us all.

Make a rangoli for your mom on Mother's day!

Here is wishing you all a happy Indian new year vijaya (lunar tomorrow and solar after three days). Here are some poems I wrote. The name of the metre too is vijaya!

యుగాదినుండియున్ - యుగాదియు వచ్చున్ - Since time immemorial, the new year returns
యుగాది నేడిలన్ - హొరంగుల వచ్చెన్ - Today is the new year's day in all its glory

Here is the much awaited second patch in full bloom!
All garden rangolis have been published, and none are waiting in the queue.
Sometime in the beginning of April, we'll start dreaming of our vegetable garden.

http://www.ikolam.com/lets-get-growing-ikolam-garden-second-patch

This is a poem I wrote years ago which may be found at http://www.uramamurthy.com/mohan_gems.html as a part of "Today's Beautiful Gem".

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