Does God create human? Or, human creates Gods? Kumartuli is a place where these questions get a lot more new meanings than you’d expect. I was visiting Kumartuli after more than ten years. It was the time just when Kumartuli was getting ready for the most important festival of Bengal, Durga Puja. I was expecting to see busy artists with their arts. I was expecting to see the developing colours, which we normally see all over Kolkata during Durga Puja. I was expecting to experience the drum roll for the annual visit of Maa Durga to her favourite place. Instead as I strolled through the narrow alleys of Kumartuli, a deep sense of confusion started taking shape in my mind: am I really seeing the preparation of a festival? Or, am I witnessing the darkness that we again and again try to ignore, a darkness that we try to cover with lights and fun and festivities. I picked up my camera and went to Kumartuli to capture the artists creating heavenly beauties. What I captured was, in my opinion, a bare bone picture of a struggling divinity. The divinity, which is already present in human, yet not expressed. The divinity that is to be portrayed in those idols of Durga, Ganesha, Viswakarma, yet not completed. Kumartuli is an amazing place! The whole area was full of contradictions. Contradiction of light vs dark. Contradiction of colour vs monochrome. Contradiction of promise of smile vs sad eyes. Maybe someday we will be able to understand the difference and/or similarity of human and God. Maybe someday we will not have to ignore and hide the dark truths with colourful festivals. But till then we, the photographers, will have to carry on showing what we actually saw through our lenses, through our inner eyes…