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Deepavali in new colours: How Singapore’s rangoli artists are adapting an old craft

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SIGNIFICANCE OF RANGOLI Mdm Vijaya learnt rangoli from her mother in India at the age of five. As a child, she would create designs along the roadside with friends, often competing to see who could make the biggest one.Even then, she dreamt of creating the world's largest rangoli – an ambition she carried with her for decades.In 2003, she realised that dream in Singapore, creating a 2,756 sq ft rangoli — roughly the size of three badminton courts — at Whampoa Community Club, earning a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest rangoli. Working alone for seven hours, she arranged hundreds of…

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