The Chronicles of Navrathria - Part 3
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 11:21PM Now that Saraswathi pooja is over, it is time to release the rest of the golu photos!
Here goes..
The smaller? golus...When you have kids in their terrible twos, the golu tends to be empty on the lower steps and they put all the fragile dolls higher up. Don't remember noticing that when we were kids.
We will now demonstrate a method to calculate the LCM (Please refresh 7th standard Math) for the golus using a factorization method. This shows that the prime factors in a golu are...
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The megolumaniacs !
This one had a mini Thirupathi setup on the side and it was amazing!
When you cannot capture the size of the steps at 28mm on a Digital Rebel and you have to resort to stitching, it implies that the golu just filled the entire room!
Finally, a couple of shots of our dolls in different paavaadais!
It was definitely fun, socializing, chronicling the golus, eating sundal(s) and watching the little one say "My paavaadai fits! It fits!" after last years experience of hand me downs (hey, if you are 1+ years old and have made only one India trip, chances are you are not going to have enough Paavaadai's that fit, especially if you are short and fare in the bottom 10 percentile for height!).
Here's looking forward to next years golu..
ps. We forgot to take the camera to some golus or simply could not get pictures without people in the frame.. so your golu's have not been featured?! here. Hey, there is always next year, right?
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Reader Comments (3)
Hi Sundar, read all the 3 parts of your Navarathri chronicles. Really nice golus - so elaborate!! But I fell that this year, the enthusiasm of golu has died down in India, because most houses that I went to for Navarathri - and these were houses where the golu would normally be grand and huge - these people had kept very small golus this year!
I think it has more to do with children as you say. For example, in one house that I went to, their daughter's quarterly exams were beginning after the navarathri holidays, so their golu this time was just a 3 tiny step affair, normally it would have been a 7-step golu with clay, porcelain dolls as well as articles that were hand made by them when they were in Qatar - really beautiful!!
I am planning to start the golu tradition from next year, if everything goes well!! Keeping fingers crossed!!
Sundar-
Thans for posting our golu too, loved your LCM facotirzation method, very creative.
Second pic was amusing - golu padi was WAAAY up there! :)
Nice shots!
Except one person, no one I know keeps golu in this place... and that person was sick - so only mini golu!