 "Rangoli artist, Pavan Rathod")
Pavan Rathod loves making rangolis, the art form that makes colourful patterns on the floor or tabletop. Gods and goddesses, flowers, the letters of someone’s name — he can make a rangoli of anything. “Shauk hai (it is a hobby),” he says.
By the time Rathod was 18, he was being invited to homes, clubs, and hotels to make rangolis. Soon he could make a living from it.
Then came TikTok. Starting with his first post on the short-video app in 2018, Rathod quickly gained 1.2 million followers. By the time India banned TikTok in June 2020, Rathod was familiar with the
