For Brahmanandam, Vinayaka Chavithi begins not with decorations or sweets, but with the simple act of sculpting his own clay Vigneshwara ... “Making a clay Vinayaka feels very personal. It’s like giving form to him with my own hands ... .
An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion ....