New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- When world is on its knees due to COVID-19 pandemic, a 37-year old Assam government employee, in solidarity with everyone fighting the global menace, has created a Durga idol here with strips of expired tablets, capsules and injection vials.

SanjibBasak, an employee of Dhubri district administration, has always comes with various innovative and eco-friendly ideas to design the idol, but this year, amid the Covid-19 crisis, he wanted to make a difference with his creation.

"During lockdown, I had observed that people were queuing up outside pharmaceutical shops to buy essential medicines in bulk. It was then the idea struck me that I could be making MaaDurga's idol with medicine strips to mark the pandemic," Basak, ...