“I belong to a family of potters. I learnt pottery from my mother who learnt it from her mother. It’s the duty of women in our household to make tphe clay mixture and set it for the final making process.

These days we started selling other varieties of pots with different colors and shapes as per the customer’s requirements.

Summer and Dusshera are the seasons for brisk sales. Earlier, people used to come to my stall regularly for buying earthen pots but nowadays, the sales have come down by more than 70 percent because of the COVID 19 scare among the public.

We used to sell not less than a thousand pots during summer and even more during the festive seasons. But now, because of the ongoing pandemic, we are hardly able to sell anything. This is the worst year so far for us.

I have three people to feed at home, and my only source of income is this clay pot business. We ended up spending all our savings to survive this pandemic and now we are struggling to make a living out of this business.

With whatever little I earned so far, I have successfully brought up my three children. Now it’s time for them to take over this business and also the family responsibilities. I will continue working for a year or two and then take a break to explore other things in life.”

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