Biswanath Chariali, Sept 27: Idol maker (murtikaar) Urmila Paul of Behali in Biswanath district is very busy these days as she has been gearing up for the upcoming Durga Puja.

Despite being a single woman after the death of her husband a few years ago, she has fought on and plunged into the idol-making work taught by her husband as a way of earning her livelihood.

By doing this, the woman is also supporting her uncle and nephew along with herself. Urmila, who hails from an interior village called Nakonia Pathar under Behali co-district, started working in the idol-making craft with her husband after marriage. She learned to make the idols of different gods and goddesses from her husband before she lost her husband a few years later.

Urmila has been busy day and night for the last two m

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