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Kolkata (Calcutta) Sights

Kumartuli

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  • Address
    • off Rabindra Sarani Kumartuli

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Lonely Planet review for Kumartuli

This fascinating district is named for the kumar (sculptors) who fashion giant puja effigies of the gods, eventually to be ritually immersed in the holy Hooghly. Different workshops in lanes off Rabindra Sarani specialise in certain body parts, creating the straw frames, adding clay coatings or painting the divine features with brilliant colours. Kumar workshops are busiest for the two months before the October/November Durga Puja festival.

 

Traveller reviews for Kumartuli (1)