Kumartuli or Kumortuli is located in the northern part of the city of Kolkata . The locality is a traditional habitat of the potters for nearly three hundred years. The potters or the artisans or the artists settled here during the restructuring of the Kolkata colonial region by the British East India Company . Earning a livelihood by making earthen pots and utensils first they gradually shifted to the making of the idols of Gods and Goddesses for various festivals round the year. With increasing demand and quality of their creations over time the artisans became famous and Kumartuli came to be known as the hub of idol makers supplying thousands of idols, particularly of Goddess Durga , to whole of the state of West Bengal and to NRIs of around 90 countries across the globe. At least three months before Durga Puja , the biggest festival of West Bengal and one of the biggest across Eastern India, more than five hundred workshops come alive with hyper activity day and night. Fir...
Mumbai continues to chill this season. Two days back it was at 10 degree Celsius, lowest of the decade. Met office predicts Mumbai winter to continue throughout February. Great times for Mumbaikars--getting used to their woolens and warm suits. Plus having the luxury of bonfires. But, as we have said earlier here, some monumental challengers still refuse to admit the chill and go on defying it with their usual casual wear and the ceiling fan syndrome.
And some hot news from Bollywood. Shahrukh Khan or King Khan reportedly slapped the husband of his best friend for nearly twenty years, Farah Khan. Farah had been a choreographer of Bollywood guiding Shahrukh to dance since the early nineties. Their bond became more closer when Farah was given a break as a director of the King Khan movie 'Main Hu Na' in 2004 and then one more movie in 2007. Both of the movies did quite well in the box office and so Farah wanted to launch her own production house and start a movie naturally with Sharrukh. Accordingly a script was handed over to Shahrukh which he returned for some changes. But Farah went on to make the movie without her best friend. The first hurt for King Khan. Then Farah's husband reportedly criticized Shahrukh's dream movie 'Ra-One' via micro-blogging. Then in the party thrown by Sanjay Dutt to celebrate the success of his latest movie late Sunday night Farah's husband reportedly followed King Khan around putting some whispers in his ears. The third hurt and maybe Shahrukh was pained in drawing a blank in this year's Filmfare film awards that happened in the same night. So the not-so-cinematic slap followed. At the moment everybody is in denial mode except Farah who has been defending her husband stoutly. Meantime the shortest T20 cricket is starting between India and Australia tomorrow to be followed by the one-dayers involving Sri Lanka as the third team. The new specialists have come back into the team. The Test debacle is thus relegated to the back burner with the cricket Board maintaining its silence. The heated debate on 'Who should be the Captain' is still doing the rounds as if changing the captain will automatically solve and close the issue. For the cricket crazy millions of India the focus is again on Team India.
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