Ajay Chakravarty was focus personified as he deftly lined the devi’s clay eyes with a chiyari (a small, sharp piece of wood) on Tuesday afternoon. The 62-year-old artisan from Kolaghat, in West ...

The sight of Goddess Durga, elegant, graceful, in all her splendour astride a lion slaying the muscular Mahishasura, is spellbinding. Standing tall on the dais (11 feet in height), she is flanked ...