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Vanessa Hua December 31, 2020Updated: December 31, 2020, 4:00 pm On New Year’s Day, Vijaya Nagarajan will make a kolam, a rice flour design, on the front threshold of her home. Vijaya Nagarajan, author of “Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual and Ecology in Southern India, An Exploration of the Kolam.” Photo: Lee Swenson Growing up — whether in her ancestral village in southern India, a government flat in New Delhi or a townhouse in suburban Maryland — she and her family celebrated each Hindu festival. They’d wake up early, then bathe and massage coconut oil and t...