Kolkata, Jan. 28 -- Installation artist Pradip Das is building his studio. The intricately carved green doors and the louvered windows that transform his contemporary building into a early 20th century marvel, have all been sourced from the broken objects' fair at Mathurapur, 60 km away from his studio at Sarsuna. The price of one new window, made by a carpenter, was enough for all the other windows procured from the fair.
The 'bhanga', or broken objects' fair, at Mathurapur in the district of South 24 Parganas, runs for nearly a month in January, with shopkeepers selling everything from old furniture, television and laptop, plumbing fittings, old notebooks and LPs, doors, windows, grills, mannequins, decorative items, exercise equipment, ...