Vaastu, mud, dung, brass, jute, and sacred trees. Threshold, kolam, tulasi vrindavan, peepal, and the creatures the Hindu home honours. The home as cosmology.
What the Floor Is Made Of — Cow Dung, Mud, and the Antimicrobial Floor That Predates Concrete by Five Thousand Years
The Threshold Is Sacred — Kolam, mango toranam, swastika, and the hanging bell: four objects that turn a doorway from a hole in the wall into a working membrane
Brass, Clay, Jute — The three materials that ran the Hindu home before plastic arrived: brass for cooking and storage, clay for water and slow ferment, jute for the floor and the bag, and the receipts now arriving from copper trial labs and the global zero-waste movement
Tulasi, Peepal, Banana Plantain — Three botanical altars of the Hindu home, and the sciences quietly catching up to each one