Maa Durga Idol Making Kolkata

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In a first, Maa Durga idol made in Kolkata's popular potters' center point Kumartuli, transported to Australia.This may very well be a beginning of something important in Kolkata Kumartuli, a potter's center popular for its Maa Durga symbols. In what is first of its sort shipment, symbol producer from Kumartuli has delivered a fiberglass icon of Goddess Durga to Australia, turning into the principal craftsman from the region to send his fine art abroad in the midst of the COVID-19 episode.

Not long after delivery the fiberglass icon to Melbourne on Wednesday, Koushik Ghosh has gotten occupied in making plans for sending another to Germany. The fiberglass symbol was cleaned before being dispatched to Australia, he said.

Ghosh's shipment has given some plan to the craftsman's of Kumartuli who are getting lesser requests and confronting dropping of appointments this year because of the pandemic.

Lightweight fiberglass symbols are popular among NRI Bengalis during Durga Puja. Ghosh said he has gotten just nine requests from abroad this year, a sharp dunk from 30-32 in the earlier years.

It would have been 12 however three coordinators dropped their appointments, said Ghosh, who has been making icons for Durga Puja coordinators abroad throughout the previous 15 years.

Aside from Australia and Germany, the icons made by him will be transported to Canada, the US and the UK this year.

The way that an icon has been delivered abroad like earlier years brings trust that the curse achieved by COVID-19 has been broken," Ghosh said.

Prior, in April, five abroad clients of another well known Kumartuli craftsman, Prodyut Pal, had dropped their appointments referring to the COVID-19 circumstance, crippling him and other icon creators.

"The greater part of the clients were from the US. Two of them have guaranteed me that they will compose Durga Puja one year from now and purchase icons from my studio," Prodyut Pal said.

Kanchi Paul, one of only a handful scarcely any female craftsmans in the potters' center, stated, "The curse has been broken. I have affirmation from five Durga Puja boards of trustees in Kolkata. We will begin work going all out once the craftsman's come back to Kumartuli from their towns.

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"Different craftsmans are additionally getting orders for icons, yet littler in size, from nearby puja boards however the numbers so far are lesser than last year's. We gravely need things to look into," she said.




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