Throughout rural India, homes – the threshold, the walls – are decorated with auspicious signs and symbols. Painted most often with rice paste or powder, these range from childlike drawings to diagrams of esoteric significance.

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Throughout rural India, homes – the threshold, the walls – are decorated with auspicious signs and symbols. Painted most often with rice paste or powder, these range from childlike drawings to diagrams of esoteric significance.

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"A Squatter Settlement, Bombay." In Vistāra - The Architecture of India, Catalogue of the Exhibition, edited by Carmen Kagal, 28-30. The Festival of India, 1986.