With the preparations for the upcoming festival of Dussehra beginning, effigy makers in Delhi's old Tatarpur Ravan Market have received a peculiar order: dispatching miniature effigies of Ravan to the USA and Canada. The market, which has been the hub of effigy-making for more than 70 years, is abuzz with activity despite facing numerous challenges in the works of the artisans.

Ravan Effigies Go International

The Tatarpur Ravan Market in Tagore Garden is again bedecked with Ravan, Meghnad, and Kumbhkaran towering effigies. The year is different this time as per 76-year-old Mahendra Ravan Wale, the effigy maker who has been in the profession for 50 years. "Last year, there were no orders for us from outside the country. But this year, we have already received orders for two Ravan effigies

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