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KOLKATA, SEPT. 26. Come Durga Puja, which falls in October, the Goddess will leave Her abode in the Kailash and go globe-trotting — from California to Tokyo, from Calgary to Cape Town. With the Bengali diaspora spreading its wings the world over, the community's own Durga Puja is becoming more and more popular in almost every corner of the world. Up from last year's export of 26 Durga idols, this year artisans from the famed Kumartuli are sending 33 idols to leading cities in the United States, Japan, Canada and South Africa.
Clay artisan
Among the exporters of the idols from the dingy lanes of Kumartuli is clay artisan Amar Nath Ghosh. While Mr. Ghosh exported 18 idols to the West last year, this year he is sending 21. ``Eighteen of my idols have already been shipped and one is being despatched today. Two of them are yet to be sent,'' said Mr. Ghosh, whose nine idols made of pith are finding patrons in the U.S. and the rest are being shipped for Canada, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. The boom in the pith, glass-fibre and paper pulp Durga idols is the result of the ``explosive growth'' in the popularity of the puja in the U.K. and the U.S.
Another artisan, Montu Pal, is busy managing the export of his idols to Dallas, Leeds, Berlin and Mauritius. Mr. Pal, who first began exporting his fibre-glass idols four years ago, said he was fighting to meet the deadline for his Baltimore and Leeds-bound consignments. Gopal Chandra Sarkar and Amar Pal, whose idols are finding takers in Rome, New York and Stuttgart, also confirmed that global demands for Durga idols from Kumartuli are increasing every year. — UNI
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