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It’s not a festival without delicious food from street vendors!

Mylapore is home to many delicious treats like paniyaram,
murukku, and fried banana.

Most young girls learn kolam art from their mothers

and grandmothers.

The kolam contest began in 1996 with a

few contestants. Since then, it has grown to be

a part of the four-day Mylapore festival. The

festival has something for everyone. Stalls

of delicious food, plays and puppet shows,

rides, board games, craft classes, music and

dance performances, and more. Sometimes

there is more than one kolam contest. Last

year, there was one for children, too!

In 2018, nearly one hundred contestants

squatted or bent down to draw their most impressive

kolam patterns in a four-by-four foot space. Powder flowed

from their fingers with ease and expertise. This year, a man

You forgot Maybe we can Stand back! I got the expertise—very
You mean that teeny,
the money! see the ball tiny, minúsculo dot way, high skill level—for crashing gates.

PICKLES!!! from here? way out there?

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