mandalas

hello all. Mid November already, does time really fly? Many parts of India and the world are in for a winter, we at Bangalore are so lucky we have a bearable winter and rather good weather throughout the year except for peak summer. As I write my blog I look out at my balcony and see the sun slowly setting and see the twilight, my balcony looks over a lovely garden maintained expertly by our dedicated society, you would have figured out we love in an Apartment Complex.

So here is my posting for today, I am putting up pictures of ‘Mandala’,, this simply means a design in circles made of different colors, the origin of the word is from Sanskrit,  in India we are familiar with colorful ‘rangoli or kolam’, which is a practice in all our homes. So, Mandalas are based on this, it is also said mandala also has its origin in Africa and even New Zealand, any way the net result is, it is a colorful doily, which can be used as a decorative item either on your tables, you can make it a wall hanging or even frame it.

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