Dasara Gombe Habba

Dasara gombe habba has always been my favorite festival forever and I never missed celebrating the festival at home from 2011, the year I started. But this year due to a birth in the family, I didn't get to celebrate the festival at home. Here is a tour of my last year celebration. 

The overall setup

My Pattada gombe collection, which has reached 4 sets now

Aadisi nodu, beelisi nodu - dancing dolls, maharaja couple dolls, Rajasthani couple face. Had dedicated wedding set along with all couple dolls for this step

Few theme dolls - half saree ceremony doll set which I had created for daughter's half saree ceremony, Bengali wedding set up, Gruhapravesha/house warming set- again hand crafted by me

Bead set, and temple scene with few vendors

Don't miss the year on the bead wall hanging - that was done by mom back in 1974, it completed 50years officially

Forever favorite Shetty and the miniatures, that peacock glass frame is also around 85 year old done by my grandpa as a kid

Last year was also the year of Chandrayaan 3, we had to make one. Crafted by daughter.

We had dedicated place for all dolls of Krishna - Vasudeva carrying baby Krishna, kalinga mardana, Krishna holding matka in hand, Yashoda mayya with baby Krishna, gopala Krishna, Krishna and Sudhama, dahi handi Krishna, ISCON Krishna devotees, along with Radha and Krishna dolls.

Mysore Maharaja and Maharani set dolls

Kondapally wedding set doll

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Dhaatu Navaratra Mahotsva 2023

If you are from Bangalore and love visiting gombe mane during Dasara, then you can't miss this place. Dhaatu is a puppet theater and culture education centre, near Silk Institute Metro station on the Green metro line. Founded in 2004, the place uses puppetry and dolls to education kids and adults with historical epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Panchatantra and more. 

What better way of story telling, than through Dasara dolls. The collection is huge, its too HUGE, more than 10,000 dolls. From traditional dolls to modern Disney dolls, from Rama, Lakshmana to Baba Ramdev yoga dolls, from chakravyuha set to Varanasi ghat sets, they have it all. The pictures make no justice to the dolls, and the collection at all. A must must visit if you are from Bangalore.

Address

Mandala Cultural Centre

Kanakapura Road, Next to Silk Institute Metro Stn (at Metro Pillar 303),

Opp. Shell Petrol Bunk,

Talaghattapura, Bengaluru

Navratri Celebration - 2K17

Dasara Bombe Habba, Navaratri, Golu, Durga Pooja, the 10 days celebration is celebrated and known by different names in India. 

And we celebrate it as Dasara Bombe Habba, the arrangement of dolls. This is our 7th year of Navaratri at home and the arrangement it getting better, year after after with the increasing collection of my dolls. So here it is for this year's celebration.

And this last pic has my daughter's best of waste project, the lighthouse, made of paper cup, tissue roll, gems ball cap, bead and sea shells. How is it?

I had been lucky enough to visit bombe of my friends and relatives over the years, be at Dubai or Thane or Hassan, so this year was no different. We shifted to Pune this March and one of my friends informed me of bombe in my neighbourhood. And believe me, I never wait for an invite to visit bombe, so I was there to see this beautiful arrangement,

After Bombe, here is about this year's Durga Pooja celebration.

While there are many Bengali Associations arranging Durga Pandals in Mumbai and Thane, I was not sure of any in Pune. But then one of my friends told me about Shivanjali Mangal Karlay on Nagar Road and Rohi Villa in Koregaon Park. 

 Shivanjali Mangal Karlay had this beautiful Durga idol along with life size ladies, representing the power of Durga.

 And this is of Rohi Villa at Koregoan Park, one of the rich Durga pandals. This pandal also has a flea market and food court. 

If you stay in Pune, don't miss to visit them next Durga Puja. That's it for this year's Navratri post, hope you all like it.

Festivity - Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri...

India is the land of festivals. Start of Shravan month in Hindu calender brings with it the festivals. To start with Shravan Poornima(Raksha Bandhan) and to end the festive season with Diwali on Kartika Amavasya. 3 months of celebrations, family gatherings, prayers for happiness and prosperity. Here is a photo tour of this festive season of Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri.

This time we had my parents here in Mumbai during Ganesh chaturthi. We had few trips planned up with them to Nashik and around, and in between tried to hop on to few of the ganesha pandals.

This pandal had the theme of corruption, save nature.

 This was somewhere in Matunga, as we hopped on just after dinner at Tambi restaurant.

Navratri Gombe Habba as always is the much awaited festivals at home. This time I hardly got time to start my preparation for the festival and just managed to arrange few of my doll collection at the nth moment.

To add to the Navratri celebration is the tour of few of the Durga Pandals around our place.

 

 

 

Happy Festivity!!!