Rangoli in the Modern World

For most of its history this tradition had one venue — the threshold — and one audience: the household and whoever passed it. The last hundred years multiplied both. Designs now appear on competition stages and in classrooms, museums, and festival grounds, and on screens everywhere; the practice crossed oceans with the communities that carry it. This chapter reads that expansion: how the circle widened from home to world without breaking, and what photography, print, and the network did to an art that vanishes by design. The tradition’s own test stays in view throughout — the settings change; the spirit endures.