Clay idols of the Hindu Goddess "Durga" under process in a workshop at Kumartuli, West Bengal, India. Kumartuli, the nerve centre of the clay idol-makers of West Bengal, is home and workshop to more than one hundred and fifty families of clay model-makers. Nearly eighty per cent of the community puja images in Calcutta are made at Kumartuli by artisans who strive to make something new and innovative in their sphere of endeavour.

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Photo credit: © Shantanu Mukherjee / Alamy / Afripics
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