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Traditional South Indian kolam is commonly made using rice flour. Rangoli, another form of Indian floor art, often incorporates coloured powders, rice and flowers. In Malaysia, colourful rangoli and kolam designs are particularly popular at weddings and during festive occasions such as Deepavali.

Several kolam artists share with us a love for the art form and have been commissioned to create designs at event venues over the years.

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00:28Satsang with Mooji
00:42Pulum is actually a 5,000-year-old art form. It is by our ancestors and is one of the
00:51most
00:51truly sustainable art forms. It is made using edible items, in this case,
00:57colored rice, and using food coloring which are safe for animals to digest. So I hope that
01:05in whatever work that we do, in the art that we do, it's not just aesthetically pleasing,
01:11but it also benefits nature. What I really enjoy working with the Colab is that it's a
01:16sensorial experience with your hands because you touch the grain of rice and it's very very
01:21forgiving. You can continue to pour off and shape the rice in order to get the perspective
01:27and the look and feel that you want. It's very unlike other mediums, such as watercolor,
01:33where you need to be very confident with your stroke the first time around to get
01:38the right look and feel for it.
01:43.
01:44This grass, when you use four colors, it is a grass that can be used to eat
01:49as a plant that is very well. The other one, the grass can be used for organic,
01:56organic, as well as a plant. It can be used for organic, as well as a plant. It can be
01:59used for
01:59as a plant. So, it can be used to be very fast, as well as a plant. So, the color
02:07is very
02:09This is like a wedding for a wedding, for a wedding, for a wedding.
02:14We usually make a wedding, for a wedding, for a wedding.
02:18So, when we look at the wedding, we have a great energy,
02:24to look at the color.
02:26I'm very interested in the column because this is the gift that I gave
02:31as a gift to all the people of Malaysia.
02:34Despite the beauty of the color, it also makes the difference between us and all of the people of Malaysia.
02:46My favorite is not Wallam, my favorite is Ranggoli itself.
02:50So, because at my hometown, we do that most of the time.
02:54So, every festival, even not even the festivals every day, we use it to do that.
02:58But when it is festivals, we do it very particularly like very big Ranggoli,
03:03with colors and all, we use that with haldi, like turmeric and the kumkum,
03:09we keep in the center of the muggu, sorry, we call it muggu.
03:14So, there in the center of the muggu, we keep haldi and kumkum for tradition and all,
03:18and it's auspicious to keep there everything.
03:21So, I like it very much. It's like stress-relieving also.
03:25It improves focus, concentration and everything.
03:27I keep that rice flour in water and mix it into a smooth texture kind of paste.
03:36Then, I keep it in a bottle. I use bottles. Some people will use it with a cotton cloth.
03:41Cotton cloth dipped into that paste and they tie it to the like stick, barbecue stick kind of stick.
03:49And then, they squeeze the cloth so that the liquid flow through the stick.
03:53Then, they do the designs. But I use the bottle.
03:58That finds me easy to do the muggu, column, whatever.
04:04And after 10 minutes, if you see that it will be dried up and it will stick to the floor.
04:09So, it will stay for two to three days without any disturbance.
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