As you read this, two clay artists — Dinesh Mondal and Naresh Das — from Manmathanagar village in West Bengal would have begun the second half of their 40-hour train journey from Kolkata to Mumbai.

With the festival season around the corner, 63-year-old T. N. Shankar, a clay doll maker from Kancheepuram, dusts his clay and papier-mâché dolls every day, hoping that a customer will buy them. But ...

Clay, terracotta, wood, shellac, dokra, jute, cloth — know about the various types of dolls in Bengal on World Doll Day Dolls made with jute, shellac and terracotta. If you are a millennial and have ...