April 24, 2024 00:44 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'Can explain manifesto to PM Modi': Mallikarjun Kharge on Muslim League remark | 'They want to break country': PM Modi's jibe over Goa Congress leader's constitution remarks | Under construction Telangana bridge collapses as high wind gushes through the area | Rajnath Singh visits Siachen, carries out assessment of security situation | Government employee shot dead in targeted attack in Kashmir's Rajouri

Kumartuli Walk: Where the Mother Goddess is a 'Deltasur' slayer

In the warrens of Kolkata's clay artists' colony Kumartuli, the idols of goddess Durga with ten splayed arms and three observant eyes, are getting final touches in the second year of a global pandemic. IBNS writer Debayani Bose marvels at the defiance of the potters to disease and universal budget crunch as they mold the lumps of clay into paragons of divinity