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I have found how women folk of the area also join in their male counterparts in
helping them with making ‘adornments’ made of shola or thermocol as they
are called.
Though idol making have remained, by and large a male bastion, in recent
years , many talented women have made forays into it. With the advent of
theme based puja, the demand for traditional idols of Devi Durga have
perhaps dwindled but still, many idols are being made and sent from here to
different parts of the state and also outside. Kumortuli has its own Durga Puja
as well, which was started way back in 1933.