Page 292 - Kolaj Sharodiya Review Edition

For in the lanes and by lanes of kumortuli we see how the artisans and clay idol
makers work relentlessly to give shapes to the idols. They spend most of their days
and nights in front of the idols they are busy creating. The creation of the idols, a
time consuming and fully labour-intensive process (as there is hardly any use of
machinations) often takes months. Most of the artisans who work there, keep on
working under time constraints, for come rain, come shine, they are supposed to
deliver the idols of Durga and her sons and daughters within the stipulated
schedule and there is no missing the deadlines.

On my visits to this place, I am left amazed by the sheer, should I say, devotion of
these workers who, not by any stretch of imagination, are getting hefty pays, simply
work on in cramped places, often covered by tin roofs or tarpaulin. They work there
and often take their naps on the floor of those tents or sheds before they wake up
and start working again.