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Overhead photo of a young woman with glasses and a long side braid kneeling on a stone floor, filling a chalk-outlined floral kolam design with bright pink powder. She wears a white and red floral-print kurta, a gold bangle, and a beaded necklace. Her hand presses a pink petal shape within the white lines of the drawing. No swami visible; the scene shows rangoli-style floor art preparation.

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A woman in glasses, wearing a white top with small red floral print and white skirt, kneels on a concrete floor and fills a chalk-outlined floral kolam design with bright pink powder using her fingers. Her hair is in a long braid, and she wears a gold bangle on her wrist and a beaded mala necklace. Chalk outlines of petals and curving lines cover the floor around her. A small purple logo appears in the upper left corner.2012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02A young girl with a long braid and glasses sits cross-legged on a concrete floor, drawing a white kolam rangoli with her right hand. She wears a pink and white floral-print kurta over white trousers, with a gold bangle on her wrist. Sunlight falls across the floor from an open doorway, and a terracotta pot sits at the top edge of the frame. No a person candidate is visible.2012-05-02A girl with a dark ponytail, wearing a purple collared top and dark trousers, sits on a concrete floor and draws a floral kolam pattern with white chalk and blue and orange accents. Her left hand rests on the floor beside the design, which features white lotus-like petals and blue spiral motifs. No a person candidate is visible in the image.2012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02A young girl with a dark ponytail, wearing a purple collared top and brown leggings, sits cross-legged on a concrete floor drawing a kolam-style floor design with coloured powder. The white and blue-green lines form a central flower with spiral petals and small orange dots at the edges. A cup of blue-green powder sits at the right edge, and a person in orange clothing's bare feet appear at the bottom right corner.2012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02Close overhead photo of a hand pressing red powder into a white chalk-outlined rangoli design on a concrete floor. Only a child's hand is visible, fingers spread over the red and pink powder, with a small bowl of red powder at upper right. Scattered powder covers the floor around the pattern.2012-05-02A close overhead photo of a floor kolam: white chalk outlines of large petal and leaf shapes on a brown ground, with a pink powder-filled flower of seven petals at the centre. A human hand with fingers spread enters from the left edge.2012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02May 02 20122012-05-02