Many of us would have watched countless Indian films that begin auspiciously with a woman (usually a maiden or a housewife) stepping out of the house at sunrise with a box of rice flour and a bucket of water. The women would wash the corridors then calmly place their tools on the floor, kneel and go on to create masterpieces called Kolams or Rangolis, which would leave you mesmerised by their intricacy and baffled by the sheer skill that is required to conceive these eleborat