rangOli
My first rangoli: the Obama campaign logo in pink beans, great northern beans, and rice with blue food coloring. Happy Diwali.
on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008, 11:05 pm in Barack Obama, Diwali, Holidays, Humor, Politics › 
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Awesome job!! Although I think the hardest part must have been to figure out how much food coloring you needed to get it just the right shade of blue.
That said… Rajma Chawl every day for a month is going to get old pretty soon. :-)
This is in Mumbai?
Im keen to know what the rest of the world (outside the US) thinks about this election, the various scandals etc.
Thanks, khoof! I just dumped it all in ;)
Have no intention of eating beans a) off the ground or b) that have been left out with the critters all night.
This is in the Bay Area.
the second picture is kinda like the BJP’s kamal ka phool,no?
I was careful to put in a different number of petals :)
Well done! :)
Good work there, chief.
While you’re here, don’t forget to cast your vote, just don’t vote your caste.
Wocka wocka wocka.
My in-laws are at an ayurveda clinic in their hometown Coimbatore (South India) for the month of October and every time I speak with my father-in-law, our first topic of conversation is “How’s Obama doing?” Yesterday, when I called to wish them happy Diwali, after the initial greetings, he immediately asked me whether the assassination plans were a rumor or a fact. Then, he went on to tell me that at the temple at the Ayurveda hospital, a bunch of NRIs brought some well-known purohits together and conducted a big pooja this week to pray for Obama’s success in the election. The temple happens to be one where the primary deity is Dhanvantari, the physician of the Gods in the Vedas and the god of Ayurvedic medicine so I suppose they were also praying for Obama’s good health! But apparently, it was a big event.
Awesome! Somehow, Obama seems to be so inspiring that the artist in everyone awakens! (Seen many interesting posters and stuff before but this one is unique!) More power to Obama — needs it the next couple weeks!
Impressive design. Off topic but anyone else worried about Obama’s expensive informercial on network TV today? is this going to turn off some voters?
Nice .
Ok - save-the-world-nerd alert - what is the circumference of the rangoli ? Just want to make sure not too much rice and rajma is going waste.
That’s a nice looking rangoli. Hope the polls are right.
:-)
Punjabi Nerrrrrddd!!!
My thoughts were the same initially - then i thought about the time I spent this weekend with the neighborhood kids on a pumpkin carving bash. i think something like 200 kaddu went to the big vegetable patch in the sky. So.. i went - nyeh. Vij paaji should have his fun. Plus a hosanna to the messiah is never wasted.
Curious Manish, as how long did it take? Or, does the artist’s secret go to his grave?
This is way cooler than the Obama jack-o-lantern idea. I couldn’t have done this for our Diwali party because all of the aunties and uncles there were feircely Republican and I do everything to avoid political conversations with them.
Hope you had a good Diwali!
Thanks y’all!
Only baseball fans, because it pushes back the World Series game.
A true nerd would’ve estimated it from the size of the beans ;) It’s small, maybe 2.5 feet in diameter. Under $10 in supplies.
Around an hour and a half. Beans are surprisingly bouncy when you dribble them onto concrete, so you spend a lot of time picking them out of the other color bands.
Prop. 8 is the big conversation killer here — the ban on gay marriage.
Manish,
The new ad/infomercial doesn’t ‘push the game back’. Even Fox said they’re just going to cancel the pre-game. No change in the game time (provided the weather co-operates).
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Fox_exec_Obama_didnt_delay_baseball.html
Thanks, KR. The republic is safe!
Manish - This is truly impressive. Hope you had a Happy Diwali!!
Graffiti - another good American job now being done cheaper and better by Indians!
I was about to ask how long did it take to make this rangoli and how much it costed and then read the comments.
congrats Manish, this is pretty geeky rangoli.. and Iam glad it is not girls always doing rangoli…
I would have never come up with a rangoli totally made out of food items..cool and novel idea..plus birds can eat it too..they say it is good to put some food stuff in rangoli so that birds can eat it..in India people put fruits, dry fruits sometimes in very small quantities.
Hope u had a relaxing fun diwali with your family Manish and got to burst fireworks and eat lots of sweets..