
India’s Ganesh idol makers count the cost of devastating floods
BBC: Standing among the broken remains of hundreds of clay idols in his workshop in India’s Raigad district, sculptor Dilip Mhatre struggles to hold back his emotions. Just weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, one of the country’s biggest religious festivals honouring the Hindu deity Ganesha, floods have destroyed six months of his work. The 40-year-old had […]











