Award-winning Indian American artist Shanthi Chandrasekar led a Kolam art installation April 24 at the U.S. Capitol. A Kolam is an Indian art form of geometric patterns, used as a welcome sign. (photo ...

TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Outside her house in south India, Maria Victor embarks on a decades-old morning ritual that has turned into a key planning tool for impoverished ...

Shanthi Chandrasekar, a Maryland-based multimedia artist, took the more than 2,000 pieces of decorated cardboard sent to her by people across the country to create a welcome mat of sorts for Vice ...

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples. This ...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are about to receive an Indian-style welcome to Washington, D.C. A group of volunteers are putting together a kolam, a traditional South Indian art form used as a sign of ...

Adilabad:The Green India Challenge, led by former Rajya Sabha MP Joginipally Santhosh Kumar, has come to the aid of the Kolam Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) community in Adilabad district ...

The artistic mapping project has helped more than 5,000 women earn a sustainable income in six districts of Tamil Nadu TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, India, Aug 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Outside her house ...