ALLAHABAD, INDIA, September 22, 2011 (TNN): With Durga Puja/Navaratri round the corner, artists are giving final touches to the murtis of Goddess Durga which will soon be installed in Durga Puja pandals.
Huge murtis of Goddess Durga, ranging from six to ten feet tall, are being completed near the Bhardwaj Ashram park in the city. Artists have been specially called from West Bengal for preparing the grand statues.
Tapas Pal, an artist from Bengal, explained that they have been working on these Deities for the past five months, creating them from special clay soil collected from the banks of river Ganga and decorating them with chemicals and colors brought from Kolkata.