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...
Rohit Sharma has been emerging as a paradox of Indian cricket, as much for the uncertainty about his place in the playing eleven as for his sort of a plunge into the television show business . This paradox is not less significant than the celebrated googly . The rollercoaster ads on his debut appearance as a host in Sony Entertainment Television ’s new show Family Full House With Rohit Sharma put this innocent writer in grievous doubt about his future in the ODI cricket only which he’s been playing after retiring from Test and T20 cricket. Has the national selector Ajit Agarkar finally decided to shelve the superlative cricketer from Team India, so as to exclude him from the Indian squad being prepared for the World Cup-2027 ? However, the selector’s final decision to include him in the upcoming ODI Series against the visiting West Indies has indeed assured this writer as far as his place in Team India is concerned, but put him in great confusion as his host-show was launched on 19 t...