Among a host of things, collector Ujjwal Sardar has three almirahs full of dolls. Red and yellow wooden ones, clay ones, shiny white porcelain ones. “I have a total of 3,400 dolls in my collection.

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.

Bengaluru: With Dasara around the corner, many Bengaluru homemakers are turning their living rooms into creative workshops, handcrafting dolls that go far beyond the traditional clay figures. From ...