We also visited the Prajapat community.
There are about 300 working potters on the site, spread over several acres.
Everywhere you look there are terracotta water vessels and ceramic containers including small cups, money boxes and flowerpots, even the walls of the houses are constructed out of pots!!
Most of the people that live here have migrated through necessity to the city in order to improve their living standards. Its extremely hot and dusty. We create quite a stir, foreigners arriving with our cameras!
The ceramic vessels are still hand made but are identical in design, mass produced for the terracotta markets here in India.
They are still highly skilled but lack some of the beauty and refinement of the work we had seen earlier at Giri Raj Prasad's studio, these people have to produce a lot of pieces each day in order to make enough money to survive.
These vessels are the everyday utilitarian objects of India, they probably sell for a few rupees each.
