It is Navratri and Chennai’s streets in religious centres like Mylapore; Triplicane, Nanganallur and West Mambalam have become colourful with plenty of clay and paper mache dolls on sale for the Golu.

The narrow Ramasamy Asari Lane off South Veli Street, leads to the Siddha Nathan Swamy Temple. But that is not our destination. We follow the clunk of metal coming from behind and walk around the ...

CHENNAI: The nine-day festival of Navratri is incomplete without golu dolls, sundal and Carnatic music. The exhibition hall at Anna Teresa Magalir Valagam offers the perfect festive sight — golu dolls ...

Here’s some of what Arabella Grayson has learned about black paper dolls: Mid-1700s: Rich ladies in England and France make tiny paper dolls in their own images. 1810: Little Fanny, the first ...

Bommala Koluvu is a custom of arranging an array of dolls in elaborate themes representing various mythological stories,deities, regular village life and traditions such as marriage, public gatherings ...