With less than four months remaining before Durga Puja, artisan Prabhas Chitrakar of Patuapara in Howrah's Domjur has been forced to turn down a commission he has fulfilled for the past three years — ...

Weeks without clay, monsoon and labour crunch put Kumartuli artisans under pressure; overall supply of idols likely to be ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga. He stands on a plastic stool and leans in toward the 8-foot-tall ...

At 11am, the lanes of Kumartuli appear deserted. There are next to no idols drying in the sun. Those that are standing at attention, lining shop sides, are all-straw or half-straw and half-clay. The ...

With Durga Puja just four months away, Kolkata’s famed Kumartuli artisans are grappling with a shortage of sacred Ganga soil after the BJP government’s crackdown on riverbank excavation. The crisis ...

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaning on his 10-armed creation, Govind Nath is ready to breathe life into the Hindu goddess Durga, a beloved deity who will be revered by tens of thousands of worshippers during the ...