But we do not keep them,” said Anthony Ammai, the storekeeper. We received queries regarding Jayalalithaa and Jallikattu dolls as they have arrived down south. Until last year, we saw a great demand for national leaders like Gandhiji, Vivekananda and Ambedkar. “We generally have a lot of demand for religious dolls like Ram and Sita or Shiva and Parvathi. Procured from Tamil Nadu, the store stocks up all kinds of dolls made of clay, fiber, plaster and wood ranging from gods and goddesses to national leaders and social scenes. Run by the second and third generations of his family now, the Golu collection is exhibited in a separate store nearby for two months, from Ganesh Chaturthi till Dussehra. Started by Swarna Gireeswaran in 1954, the store began selling Golu dolls from the late 1960s. Now, we have moved to Vasai but we still come here to do our Golu shopping as we know we will get everything according to our needs,” says Ganesh Kumar, Kataksha’s father, whose family has been celebrating the tradition for over a century now. “As we lived in Matunga earlier, we have been visiting this store since childhood. For people in Mumbai, Giri happens to be the one-stop destination for Golu shopping. While the dolls are passed on from one generation to the next, it is customary for every family to buy at least one new set every year.
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