Artist Nivedita Mishra remembers her childhood vividly, when she’d enthusiastically dip her fingers into the rice-paste prepared by her mother for rangoli. She would eagerly await traditional festivities at her village of Raksimunda, Odisha, and eagerly await the harvest season of Margasira, when every Thursday, at home, Lakshmi pooja would be performed and rangoli would be designed with numerous motifs, including the lotus flower, conch shell, elephant and fish.