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| This is a kolum (sp?) in front of the University of Wisconsin College Year in India-Madurai program house. A kolum is a customary design-pattern kind of temporary welcoming mat that the woman of the house will draw outside their home everyday with rice flour. One of the lovely cooks at the program house made this enamel paint kolum to greet us students when we first arrived. This kolum is no longer. A couple weeks ago the cooks and I scraped it off the sidewalk with sharp objects and some terrible liquid that stinks like anything. (<-- A little Indian English for you.) |
