24 January 2023

Amazing handicraft

Although pottery has lost its popularity due to technological changes in the past few decades, it is nice that this handicraft hasn't completely gone.

Just like most people of my age who were brought up in rural areas of India, I had the pleasure of seeing dedicated men and women making pots from clay.

This evening, it was pleasure viewing 'Off the Grid' episode featuring potmaking in rural Assam and presented by Alexandra Puthwaite on Travelxp TV Channel. 

This program was unique to me in one sense. I have seen craftspeople making pots using wooden or mud wheels that are kept rotating, over which the clay is placed and worked on. In  this program, the craftswoman used a small wooden base on which she placed the clay and moulded it into a fine pot without rotating the base much. 



Amazing handicrafts.

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.