Photo: Luit Chaliha
An idol maker applying finishing touches to a clay idol of Hindu goddess Durga at a pandal in Sivasagar in India’s north-eastern state of Assam ahead of the Durga Puja festival on October 7, 2010. Durga Puja, the annual Hindu festival that involves worship of the Goddess Durga, who symbolizes power and the triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology, culminates in the immersion of the idols in bodies of water.