my good friend, sravya tanikella, had her carnatic vocal arangetram (a program in which she continuously sings alone for a number of hours with accompanying musicians on the mridangam, violin, etc.) this june. i had the privilege to take the pictures they used in the program brochure and the invitations. these are the culminating photographs from that sunny, fun-filled saturday afternoon with everyone gathered in the living room while she sat prim and poised in her langa voni with two white bedsheets as our diy background.