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Tradition says
The eyes are painted on at Mahalaya - chokkhudaan - which is held to bring the goddess to life. On the tenth day the images are immersed in the river the clay came from.
Historians say
The neighbourhood that makes the goddess. Artisanal workshops sculpt images of Durga and her family from unfired clay pulled from the Ganga, for pandals across Kolkata and for the Bengali diaspora worldwide.