Diwali rangoli contest, 2008

We are delighted to announce our Diwali rangoli/kolam contest exclusively for ikolam members. The contest that we’d conducted during last Diwali was a huge success. Following that tradition, we wanted to celebrate Diwali with you through a Rangoli contest. We know you would create a special rangoli to please Goddess Lakshmi. Would you like to share a picture of your rangoli with the rest of the rangoli fans from all over the globe? Who knows...you might win the title of being called the rangoli queen or the rangoli king, for a whole year!

We welcome all the members of the iKolam.com community to participate in this event.

Contest Days : Oct 20th, 2008 to Nov 7th, 2008.
Submission Formats : Images, photos of your Diwali Rangolis. Images should be at least 640pixels by 480pixels.
Theme : Diwali
Where to send : rangoli@ikolam.com
Contest guidelines : You could send up to 2 submissions per member. You should be the original owner/creator of your artwork. Pictures and images should be sent to us in either jpeg or gif format. It is mandatory to include your ikolam userid with your submission. The voting page will open up on Nov 7th.
We've now stopped accepting entries. We're in the process of preparing the voting page...it will be up shortly.
Thank you.

Here are the members who have submitted their rangolis as of Nov 7:

Mahalakshmi Rashmi chokhani
Rajeswari Pavan Supriyaa.kp
Anirudh Arunkumar
Sagar Rachakonda Rajashree Raja
Rajee Sriram Bharathi Bhaskar
Ramesh Deepa Ram
Nagata.S Suhasini Ganesh
Bala Devi.C Parimala.M
Meena Thyagarajan Madhumathi Kulkarni
Pavan Kashyap K.B.Visalakshi
Sandeep Kumar P Malde Sowmya Rajesh
Menaga Velusamy Nivethini Selvamoorthy
Bhanu M Poorna Chandrika
Geetha Shankar Usha
Shilpa Swamy Kavita Arora
Seethalakshmi Eraiyoli Namana Jhansi
Usha Ravikumar Janaki Srinivasan
Sweta Krishna Kasturi Bhai Sundarasan
Janaki Vishwanath Hemalatha krishnan
Rajamma Sitaraman Sudha Venkatraman
Mitra Vasisht Lakme
Pushpa latha Latha Selvaraj
Preethi Rajaganesh Radha Vijaykumar
Praveena Rao Sunanda Kumar
Darshana Sarda Lakshmi Devi
Lakshmi Jagannathan Subhashini Vinay
Archana Madabhavi Meena Venkataraman
Jaya Mohan Dheebika Dibi
Bhavna Lulla Amutha Ramadas
Lakshmi Raghu Veena Mathur
Yashoda Shivashankar Suchitra Gore
Pallavi Mokashe Satheesh
Prathitha Akilandeswari
Kanchana Vellaitham CK Selvi
Sanjiva N.Appadoo Vijayalakshmi Krishnan
Sathyaprema Jagadha Nadarajan
Swathy Vasudevan V.Jayalakshmi
Radha. A Hema Malini
Rekha Mohandoss Sujatha Padmanabhan
Chamraj lakshmi Archa Desai
Sudha Valli Vyjayanthi mala
Suguna Nagaraj Kameswari
Anukrati Sharma J K Mohana Rao
Indumathy

Please do not forget to include your userid with your image attachments. Last day to send your entry is Nov 7th, 2008.

Comments

kaviarora's picture

i want to send my rangoli for "diwali rangoli contest 2008" but i dont know how can i send my rangoli image. plz tell me my email is kaviarora@rediffmail.com

Lata's picture

Hi Kaviarora,

Please check out the front page for more details about the contest. You could send us the rangoli image as an attachment with your email to rangoli@ikolam.com or to
lata@ikolam.com

Good luck!

hannya's picture

Dear lata san

May I ask you where an image which hannya (the name in the submitted member list Nagata. S) posted, is able to seen in the following pages
http://www.ikolam.com/festival/diwali
or an other page ?

some images in the first page are enabled to see them in large size with click ,
but all of images in the last (third) page are not enabled .
Would you help me to see them in large size ?

hannya of Kokusai(Internationa In Japanese) traditional pattern Arts and Science Forum KASF from Japan

Lata's picture

Hello Mr.Nagata,

Your entry is not displayed yet, because we're waiting for all the entries to arrive, and the last date to send an entry is Nov 7. We do not want to disclose the rangolis of the participants who've already submitted. We'd be displaying the rangolis all at the same time without revealing the names of the participants (the rangolis would carry an entry # of course). I hope this sounds fair to you too Smile
But please let me know your suggestions also, because there is always room for improvement in this site. Thank you Mr.Nagata, I'm glad you're participating this year!!

ramapreyah's picture

All the very best to all, put out your full interest and give us the pleasure of seeing all new kolams

By Ramaprabha

Radha A's picture

Lata,

Hi this is radha here. my ID is Radha A . I had sent 2 photos for the diwali kolam i cannot see either the photos or my name in the list???

rpc's picture

Hi, Wish you all the best to all participants.

Lata's picture

Hi Radha,

Thank you for letting up know...I think your name was assumed to be in the list, looks like we confused Radha A with Radha V. Anyway, your name is updated, and your rangolis are safely resting (in their respective folders in my Safe)...BEFORE THEY ARE LET OUT THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE'S' Smile
I'm so excited looking at all the entries...the voters are in for a tough time!!

hema_kolam's picture

I sent my Kolam on Nov 4th, but dont know why my name is not published in list of senders as on Nov 7th.

admin's picture

Hi Hema,

You had mentioned in your email to me that you had made your rangoli for this diwali, where as the image that you had sent matches exactly with one of our member's kolam which can be seen in the following link (member name is Sarala and she had submitted her rangoli in October of last year). Check it out at:
http://www.ikolam.com/node/757?p=753
Thank you
-lata

ruby25rose's picture

hi,
i have sent the rangoli for the competition, how to know whether my name has been added

admin's picture

Hi Rubyrose, You had mentioned your name as Mahalakshmi, and so I had added your name as that in the list...please check it out...your name is the first one listed!

Sandeep's picture

Sandeep K P Malde

Dear Lataji

Namaskar / Jambo from Obama country!

When will you display all the rangolis for the Diwali 2008 Contest

admin's picture

Namaste Sandeepji,

Just two more hours...I really appreciate your patience! Thank you.

bharathibhaskar's picture

lata what time you will display all the rangolis for the Diwali 2008 Contest?

Lata's picture

It's up there now bharathi!

lakshmi jagannathan's picture

hi Lata

I sent a photo for the Diwali contest but not able to view the same