Safarnama

Kumartuli

North Kolkata

The clay idol-makers' quarter, working since the eighteenth century for the zamindars' household pujas and, from the 1910s, for the neighborhood pujas that now fill the city.

Busiest in the weeks before Durga Puja. Ask before photographing artisans.

Time to allow
90 min

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