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Kolkata, India (September 2012) |
In the narrow alleys of this distinct neighborhood in Kolkata, hundreds of unfinished clay statues of Hindu idols fill the workshops of artists, whose creations, culminating from months of meticulous work, inevitably end up in the sacred river Ganges after the annual
puja (a festival of some sort).