‘Thermocol Out, Clay & Shola In’: These Kolkata Artisans’ Durga Idols Won’t Choke the Hooghly This Pujo

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• Kolkata artisan Koushik Ghosh in Kumartuli is returning to traditional materials like bamboo, straw, clay, shola and natural colours for Durga idols instead of thermocol and synthetic paints.
• He says thermocol and chemical colours came later because they were cheaper and faster, and he wants to go back to what was used before.