For the godmakers of Kumartuli, creating larger than life idols of the goddess is a means of survival. Their workplace (or the lack of it) is anywhere on the streets under the open sky, a makeshift workshop covered in tarpaulin. It is a cyclic ritual followed every year, digging mud from the riverbed, long months spent in creating masterpieces to be shipped within Kolkata and across the world for the celebrations and the immersion of the idol as a mark of the goddess's departure.
