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OCTOBER 10, 2024 Vol. 4, No. 21
Local women put new spin on annual Navaratri Golu celebration
Cowabunga! Fall Motor City Comic Con to be a frightfully fun event
BY CHARITY MEIER
cmeier@candgnews.com
BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
The Hindu festival of Navaratri is celebrated over a nine-day span every fall, typically in October. During the festival, women traditionally have Golu (religious doll displays) set up in their homes and invite friends and family to view them. “We invite our neighbors, friends, family and we treat each of them as goddesses themselves and we offer them food, they come and view the display and they offer their good wishes and blessings,” said Raje Angamuthu, of Sterling Heights. “It’s nine nights of getting together, praying and socializing.” The displays are similar in that they consist of the same gods and goddesses, but there are multiple variations of the dolls themselves, much like various Christian Nativity scenes. The Golu is often displayed in different orders to tell a different Hindu story. “No two doll displays are the same,” said Shuba Ganapathy, of Novi. Every year, Hindu women travel all over, often visiting
The Motor City Comic Con, which is set to take over the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi Nov. 8-10, has a reputation for bringing in phenomenal celebrity guests, and the lineup for the third annual fall convention does not cease to amaze. This year’s lineup includes: Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund; Wayne Knight, better known as Newman from the TV sitcom “Seinfeld”; Priscilla Presley; the voice actors behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, Barry Gordon and Rob Paulsen; Star Trek’s
See NAVARATRI on page 9A Photo by Erin Sanchez
The Golu (doll display) owned by Shuba Ganapathy and Vidya Venkatesh is seen in the back of a U-Haul truck at Fuerst Park in Novi Oct. 6.
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