Tripura-based puja organisers
give Kolkata a run for its money by commissioning the world's most expensive
Durga idol made of gold, which costs a whopping Rs 4 crore.
Bengalis
have seldom shied away from going all out when it comes to celebrating Durga
Puja every year. The grandeur of the pujas in Bengal and other parts of eastern
India has perhaps unmatched anywhere in the world. And keeping with the
tradition, this year one of the puja organisers in Tripura want to give Kolkata
a run for its money by commissioning the world's most expensive Durga idol made
of gold!
Indrajit Poddar, an artist from North 24 Pargana
district in West Bengal has sculpted the Durga idol studded with American
diamonds and gold that is going to adorn the pandal of Agartala's Chatra Bandhu
club.
Devotees are all set to be dazzled when they see
their Goddess in all her pristine glory, adorned with jewellery and precious
stones worth a whopping 4 crores!
Poddar
has been making idols for more than a decade and often experiments with unique
materials and components such as tree bark, fruit seeds or even shells and
pearls.
Back in 2014, he had made an idol studded with
pearls for the same club which later went on to be preserved at the Ujjayanta
palace in Agartala.
Poddar got the choicest ornaments sourced from a
leading Kolkata based jewellery showroom. The idol is being made up of glass
fibre and the entire canopy reaches up to 10.5 feet.
Goddess Durga along with her four children
Laxmi, Saraswati, Ganesh and Kartik have all been adorned with the gold. Poddar
began working on the idol in March soon after receiving the order from the
club.
Several
officials from the Habra police station have been keeping a strict watch near
the artist's house and the work area since the jewellery arrived earlier this
week. CCTV cameras have also been installed to monitor the place at all times.
"We had to secure the workshop where the
idol is being made with iron rods and sealed it to anyone except the workers. A
team of more than one hundred artists have worked day and night on the
structure," he says.
(With
inputs from India Today)
Indrajit Poddar, an artist from North 24 Pargana district in West Bengal has sculpted the Durga idol studded with American diamonds and gold that is going to adorn the pandal of Agartala's Chatra Bandhu club.
Devotees are all set to be dazzled when they see their Goddess in all her pristine glory, adorned with jewellery and precious stones worth a whopping 4 crores!
Back in 2014, he had made an idol studded with pearls for the same club which later went on to be preserved at the Ujjayanta palace in Agartala.
Poddar got the choicest ornaments sourced from a leading Kolkata based jewellery showroom. The idol is being made up of glass fibre and the entire canopy reaches up to 10.5 feet.
Goddess Durga along with her four children Laxmi, Saraswati, Ganesh and Kartik have all been adorned with the gold. Poddar began working on the idol in March soon after receiving the order from the club.
"We had to secure the workshop where the idol is being made with iron rods and sealed it to anyone except the workers. A team of more than one hundred artists have worked day and night on the structure," he says.
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