{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"PoohsDen","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden","author_name":"Vinitha","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/author\/pooh_admin\/","title":"Tamizhar Thirunaal &#8212; PoohsDen","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"x0yIkPLMkk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/tamizhar-thirunaal\/\">Tamizhar Thirunaal<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/tamizhar-thirunaal\/embed\/#?secret=x0yIkPLMkk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Tamizhar Thirunaal&#8221; &#8212; PoohsDen\" data-secret=\"x0yIkPLMkk\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","description":"Of all Indian festivals Pongal is a favorite. To me it makes the most sense of all Indian festivities. It is the Indian equivalent of Thanksgiving (or at least the way I interpret it). This year, I had the chance to be in Chennai for Pongal. Kuttyma and I spent time creating and decorating with kolams. It was her first attempt and I was quite pleased to see her keen on it. I have fond childhood memories related to kolams. Notebooks filled with designs faithfully copied from books and borrowed from friends, shopping for different colors all around the state,\u00a0collecting the whitest sands you find during our beach vacations, dyeing sand, white base powder or salt and drying them, selecting the perfect design, making a flour paste so that the design stays for longer, lighting mosquito coils and dark hours spent decorating. I was never good at it. I am too impatient for that. But it was a ritual I associate with my childhood. One of the few that stays. In college, I was part of the team that decorated halls with rangoli and flowers before classical events. Over the years, it become a memory. It was beautiful to recreate [&hellip;]","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/image-4.jpeg"}