Every morning across much of India, someone bends at a doorway and draws a pattern on the ground in rice flour or coloured powder. By evening the milkman, the school bus rush and the neighbour’s scooter have scuffed it; the next morning it is drawn again. At Diwali the pattern gets bigger and brighter and is lit with diyas, but the habit behind it is old, and it is daily.
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