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Laborers hang colored yarn to dry in Santipur, about 120 kilometers north of Kolkata, India, Saturday, October 3, 2020. Many of the skilled weavers from this small town in West Bengal's Nadia district are from weaver families that arrived from Bangladesh during the partition years. Jamdani, the traditional weaving art practiced here, was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2013. Weavers here say that despite the approach of Durga Puja festival, the biggest festival of the region, there have been minimal orders because of the pandemic and this has affected the economy of the village. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)
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