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This video exhibits one of the most important art forms in India. Earthern pots I know were used a lot for cooking, serving and storing as they add a specific taste and aroma to food. Its becoming rare now and within a few years it would probably be extinct (except for the exclusive showroom pottery/decor pottery), which would sure take over.
This video more than just appreciation sure seems to demand life to an almost extinct or soon to get extinct art-form of India.
[…] Swajana posts videos on their blog of snippets of life in India. A video on pottery. “As in many other parts of the world - this art has developed a long way in India too. But simultaneously - its also maintained its roots by being done pretty much in the “classical” way.” Neha Viswanathan […]
I really enjoyed watching this and seeing how these pots are made. I thought it was really cool and interesting that he is wanting his children to do more (although making pots seemed like quite an art/skill to me).
I’m really enjoying this video blog - I feel like it is giving me a much more genuine look at Indian culture than I’ve ever seen on TV - I feel much more like I’m really there.
[…] Swajana - Life in India has videos that offer snippets of India. One lovely video is about Pottery. Pottery is sold in nearly every street-corner in India. It gets used for decoration as well as for utilitarian purposes - or of course a bit of both. In homes plants are grown mostly in earthenware pots, such pots are also used for cooling drinking water, earthenware is used for serving food in and a host of other purposes. This earthenware can be used in its unglazed or glazed form. The creation and sale of these form a fundamental source of livelihood for a number of artisans and salesmen. Our video is about one such person. […]
Great video reminded me of the time I visited a potters village in Bombay called Kumbharwada. Its village in the middle of the city Mumbai city a stage for a collisions between traditional community livelihoods and the new urban reality. When I ask Ramjibhai one the potter who lived there about such a change he only turned to me and says, “We are all but clay in the hands of God and he is the only one that can shape change.”