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A lime-washed courtyard with Athangudi tiles around a south-Indian birth chart, no figures of people.

A courtyard for the day's reckoning

Panchangam, matching and the birth chart, kept the way a Tamil house keeps its courtyard: lime-washed, tiled, and exact.

Today in the courtyard

DateSaturday, November 14
TithiWaiting
NakshatraWaiting
YogaWaiting
A good hourWaiting

The month, on courtyard tiles

Festivals sit on the green glaze. Today's cell is marked on the mustard tile.

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A living month. Festival marks appear when the almanac for this place is published.

Today's plaque

The five limbs of the day, written under a teak lintel.

Waiting

The house on the verandah table

Plans and rooms sit on the verandah table, under the same lintel as the rest of the house.

The drawing area is the same tool used across the house, only framed for this courtyard.

A house plan on a verandah table, with rooms marked, no figures of people.

A south-Indian chart, as on the courtyard floor

A south-Indian birth chart drawn on a tiled courtyard floor, no figures of people.

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