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Indian artists Mahendra Pal puts the final touch to a clay idol of Hindu Goddess Durga in Bangalore, 19 September 2003. The ten day-long Durga Puja festival which starts 25 September, is to welcome the vanquisher of the buffalo-demon Mahishasura, Goddess Durga, the ten-armed goddess of fertility's journey to earth from her husband Hindu god Lord Shiva's heavenly abode of Mount Kailash. AFP PHOTO/Indranil MUKHERJEE