We have kind permission to share private golu photos from the home of Shankaranarayanan and Madhavi, whom we know from years ago, and whom we’ve seen among the Ubhayakaras at the Sivan Koyil. They keep a large golu at their house on Eswaran Koyil street! Many pieces which they proudly show, collected by his grandmother and then his mother. Lovely sets, including Ravana sabha, vilakku puja, even the Abhirami bhattar story. I forget how many padis, but it well near went up to the ceiling. Beneath was green turf and so many more pieces, of lesser importance, but many personally irreplaceable beadwork pieces made by his mother. My golu at home is absolutely nothing in comparison! The green turf should have been mud brought from outside but who does that sort of thing any more? (I overhear them saying). It makes me think that golu practices themselves must be changing so much, and must have become far less ritualised and embedded in local ecologies.