Losing atleast one season of effigy making and Dushera celebrations in the prolonged epidemic, the effigy makers have innovated dwarf size models that are hit with the residents, especially children. In the absence of Dushera celebrations on extensive grounds, people prefer to celebrate it at their respective homes, maintaining protocols of Covid19.

Small, less than a foot effigy are having brisk sales on Rajouri Garden, Tagore Garden, Najafgarh Road, West Delhi, the central hub and suppliers of the Dushera effigies. Krishan Lal, an artist, said, “last year we could not do any business, and so this year we just manufactured dwarf doll size effigies. We are not earning vast amounts of money as people are bargaining and not paying us well, but we are happy that our art is surviving.


Friends let us not bargain but help them in their survival, both art and livelihood.