When the birthday of Ganesh, the elephant-headed god, is celebrated later this year the faithful will find the famous multicoloured idols of the object of their devotions a little less bright.
A court in Mumbai, India's commercial capital where Ganesh is worshipped more fervently than anywhere else, has told the estimated 40,000 craftsmen who live by making idols of the god that the plaster of Paris and fluorescently bright chemical paints they now habitually use are environmental hazards and thus illegal.
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