Every year, Poompuhar puts up a display of golu dolls at an enclosure outside the showroom on Big Bazaar Street. R Suganya has been participating in this yearly tradition from the time she was in ...

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.

Crammed in between figurines of popular manga heroes like Doraemon, Nobita Nobi and a baby Krishna, Jayalalithaa stands tall, clad in her favourite green sari, wearing a soft expression. The clay and ...