A visit to Marasandra on Dodaballapur
Its this village we went to around 25 minutes from college by bus.
We stopped by the house of Bhairavana in front of whose house we saw freshly baked pots displayed. Bhairavana was inside the front yard of his shack where his work was in progress. Though language and culture was a barrier, Bhairavana didn't feel concious at all. He continued his skilled pot making on the cart wheel which spun at a high speed. Within the span of ten to fifteen minutes he made like four pots with ease like a cakewalk.
He mentioned that he inherited this business from his fathers.
We were allowed to intrude and observe the surroundings.
There was this huge oven like furnace where they baked the pots.
During monsoons they work but keep the shacks covered with layers of plastic sheets.
As we approached inside we met his son Manjunatha with swift hand movements moulding the clay into idols of Ganesha, as the festive season is coming up next month.
They don't invest much as they use water colours to paint. They don't put varnish as the finishing touches. Because these idols are eventually immersed in the natural waters which leads to the hardened clay to melt and that clay goes back to the water ground.
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