Idols of the Hindu Goddess "Durga" 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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Keywords: artisan, asia, bengal, calcutta, clay, durga, goddess, hindu, idol, india, kumartuli, maker, mukherjee, puja, shantanu, west, workshop