‘Ravan Chale America’: How A 70-Year-Old Delhi Market Is Now Shipping Effigies To The USA, Canada | India News
With the preparations for the upcoming Dussehra Starter Festival, Effigy producers in Delhi’s former Tatarpur Ravan market received a strange order: Ravan’s sending miniatur Effigies to the United States and Canada. Pazar, which has been the center of Effigy for more than 70 years, is confused with the activity despite its numerous challenges in the works of craftsmen.
Ravan Effigies is going internationally
The Tatarpur Ravan market in the Tagore Garden also slept with Ravan, Meghnad and Kumbhkaran Effigies. The year, Effigy Maker, who has been a profession for 50 years, is different from 76 -year -old Mahendra Ravan Wale this time. “Last year, there was no orders from outside the country for us. However, this year, we received orders for two Ravan Effigies with two to two and a half feet height,” he added. As the festival approaches, he hopes to get more orders.
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Inflation and fireworks ban hit local demand
Raja Sonipat, based in Haryana -based trades, says that despite international interest, the domestic demand for Effigies was shot. “The demand for Ravan Effigies due to inflation and fireworks ban fell significantly,” he said. Although Bihar’s subhash still produces effects, he says that the enthusiasm and grip that characterizes the process is pale. Even with increasing prices, the retail price has been static for 500 ° per foot for years. The market is currently as small as 5 feet and as long as 50 feet.
Fear of theft encourages producers to employ guards
Effigy producers are also threatened to theft because they are examples of people who play the night effects. This forced the artisans to use guards to protect their work, which is an additional burden on their already stretched budgets. To work on the market, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and craftsmen from different parts of Haryana complained about disappointment because of the lack of support.
Support objection
Subhash, who was given Bihar’s efforts in Gandhi Maidan, wanted to get more support for tradition. The craftsmen also wished to increase the demand for Effigies with the emergence of a new government, but this has not yet happened. Despite the deficiencies, artists are connected to their work and guarantee that they will continue to make effiigies as long as they are enthusiastic about the profession.
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