Diwali 2026 · 6–11 November

Your name, drawn as one unbroken line

A sikku kolam is a single line of rice flour that loops around every dot on a doorstep and returns to where it began. Type a name and watch its kolam draw itself. No two names make the same one.

Diwali

Now draw one yourself

Puzzle

30 kolams, one line each

Every colour is a separate line. Tap the gaps between dots to cross, turn or join them until the whole thing is one loop. Five chapters, one for each day of Diwali.

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Speed

Before Sunrise

Kolams go down before dawn. Two minutes of darkness, endless kolams that keep getting bigger, and a high score to beat.

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Create

Kolam Studio

Design your own with mandala brushes, then pour rangoli colours into the spaces. Save it as an image or send the link.

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Explore

The maths of one line

Why 4 × 6 dots can never be one line without help, how light and mirrors explain kolams, and what they share with the sand drawings of Angola.

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Quiz

Five days of light

Dhanteras to Bhai Dooj, what floor art is called across India, and a 10-question Diwali quiz you can share.

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A little gallery of names

Tap one to draw it big. Each was grown from its letters by the same rule: one line, every dot, perfect symmetry.