Bengaluru: Ahead of Dasara, Bengalureans prepares to decorate their house with the appearance of themed dolls in various problems.
While Kannadigas called it featuring Bombe Habba, Tamilian celebrated the festival as Bommai Kumai and Telugu speakers as Bommala Pandaga.
Shanta Nagaraj, a housewife, plans to arrange her display at Mysore Palace and the Krs Park model.
Population Layout Isro said the collection consisted of more than 1,000 dolls and bombs Pattada (main doll set) aged more than 100 years and had been in his family for generations.
“This year, I will show off all my original dolls, traditional antique pieces and miniatures, dolls, kitchen clay sets and dolls channapatna,” he said.
Shanta also expects more visitors this year.
Deepthi Srikanth, a professional logistics, said like every year, he will celebrate Dasara with his sister Preethi Ramesh.
He said compared to last year, the Dasara celebration looks more alive this year.
“Shops are filled with buyers and the situation looks closer to normal now.
I have received an invitation from five of my friends for a celebration,” he said.
Deepthi and Preethi tell their stories and themes to their visitors, and Deepthi said it was very useful to meet children.
“They remember what we had explained to them the previous year and asked questions to us,” he said, adding that they would also follow the Navratri color code.
Srinivasan Raghavan, 63, a citizen Indiranagar, told TOI that with vaccinated people, everything looked better and he hoped to welcome more visitors to see the doll settings.
The theme based settings attracted more than 100 families and friends every year.
Raghavan, who decorated his house for Dasara for 40 years, said he had done a lot of effort to arrange, and even traveled to the actual location of the model – Nava Narasimhar Temple in ahobilam (80km from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh) – made with more than 300 dolls .
“I have made a miniature model of nine temples,” said Indananagar residents, added that he planned the design three months ago and created details such as mountains, caves, waterfalls, river beds, bridges and roads rusting into the last temples of one month .
Relaxation of Covid restrictions helped him travel to Ahobilam.
“I can get all the details accurately and even get raw materials easily because the pandemic has faded,” he said.
Bengalureans low-key celebrations also choose to keep keeping and having a low celebration.
Arun Ramachandran and his wife Archana Gopalakrishnan, who used to show more than 500 dolls, had decided not to have a look this year.
“Our friends and groups, some of them will travel far from Chennai to see our decorations, have great hopes of us.
Although many have been vaccinated, the situation is not fully normal.
So, we are careful,” said Hebbal Resident .
With a 150-year-old idol it is forwarded to them through generation, Arun says this decoration is like a mini project for those involving many planning.
Another Hebbbans, Krishna Prasad, said he would wait another year before he returned to his long tradition which had 800 dolls on the theme of Myriads.
“If I display the doll, I can’t stop my friends and my family to visit.
But for everyone’s safety, I will limit the Dasara this year to the Puja family,” he said.