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Casting A Spell With Their Idols
The Morning Standard
|November 01, 2020
Two friends came together and set up a small casting unit in Jaipur, manufacturing idols of gods from polyresin, employing over a dozen disabled craftsmen.
A DiVERSITY has a way of bringing out the best among the chosen few. When Covid-19 led his employer to cut his salary by half, Shrikrishna
Maharishi, an art teacher at Rajasthan School of Arts in Jaipur, refused to accept it. Instead, he took a small loan, and along with his friend Roshan Verma, set up a casting unit to manufacture idols of gods and goddesses and objects d’art. It was a difficult choice in the challenging circumstances of Covid-19.
Over a dozen of their employees — most of them are physically disabled — produce 400 statues a day. They sell their products in the wholesale market in Jaipur as well as online.
Gods they serve
This story is from the November 01, 2020 edition of The Morning Standard.
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