The Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in the south coastal Andhra Pradesh appear to be more eco-friendly this year, thanks to the relentless campaign launched by civil society organisations against the use of Plaster of Paris and harmful chemicals in the making of the idols.
Corn came in handy for miniature artist Ameer Jan who made 666 images of the Lord with zero-size brush in Nellore. He used acrylic colour to paint miniature images of Lord Vigneswara on the yellow kernels of maize without using a microscope. The painstaking effort took a little over six hours.
