There are layers at the Navarathri sales market in Mylapore. And you will get to experience them if you happen to chat with the hawkers here.
There is an informal but pucca reservation of spaces on the mada veedhi for the hawkers of dolls. And this has happened over the years. Some have been here for over 15 years; some have taken the place of those who gave up this business.
That is why there is some order in the hawkers' spaces when Navarathri is at hand. There is no room for free-for-all though there are some scrapes now and then.
This is the reason why the hawkers' market sets in so fast and fairly well too.
But one woman is distraught this year. She used to set up shop outside the windows of the office of Sri Kapali Temple. Last week, four saplings were planted alongside the office on the mada veedhi said and lo, the woman who says she had her stall here the past 15 years could not even fight it out and has had to make do with little space on the pavement.
She says she invested over one lakh rupees on the dolls and was felled when she realised her 'old ' space was gone. "Mine was the biggest display here. I liked to set up all the big bommais I brought...shoppers want to see what we have for them. Now its all gone..."
There is an informal but pucca reservation of spaces on the mada veedhi for the hawkers of dolls. And this has happened over the years. Some have been here for over 15 years; some have taken the place of those who gave up this business.
That is why there is some order in the hawkers' spaces when Navarathri is at hand. There is no room for free-for-all though there are some scrapes now and then.
This is the reason why the hawkers' market sets in so fast and fairly well too.
But one woman is distraught this year. She used to set up shop outside the windows of the office of Sri Kapali Temple. Last week, four saplings were planted alongside the office on the mada veedhi said and lo, the woman who says she had her stall here the past 15 years could not even fight it out and has had to make do with little space on the pavement.
She says she invested over one lakh rupees on the dolls and was felled when she realised her 'old ' space was gone. "Mine was the biggest display here. I liked to set up all the big bommais I brought...shoppers want to see what we have for them. Now its all gone..."
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