An Art of Giving Life to Mud

SUMIT MALHOTRA
School News Network
Chandigarh, September 14 2018

As the season of festivity begins, the artists at Kalibari Temple located in sector 47, Chandigarh started creating Idols of Lord Ganesha while working day and night. The marvellous creation of these artists can be clearly seen in the Idols in which they put life to the mud with combination of colours.

An artist from Kolkata giving final touches to the Idols of Lord Ganesha at Kalibari Temple in Chandigarh.  Photo by Sumit Malhotra

We come from Kolkata specially to design these Idols and when our work finishes, we return back every year, as told by the artists while giving final touches to the art. The main artist and owner of place Khokan Adhikari said that we make the Idols of not only Ganesha but we make all kinds of Idols, also deals in electric jhankis.

An artist giving final touches to the Idols of Lord Ganesha. Photo by Sumit Malhotra 

Speaking further he said, these Idols are made of clay, cement, POP and fiber, but for the purpose of immersion we uses mud and clay only which easily gets dissolve in water during the ritual. When asked about the number, he told that we have yet made more than 250 Idols of Lord Ganesha of different sizes which are being purchased by local residents to celebrate the occasion.

A customer check ahead of purchasing the Idols at Kalibari Temple in Chandigarh.  Photo by Sumit Malhotra

 More will be created as per demand or till day of Ganesha Visarjan, he added.