Leela bordia biography of mahatma

  • "The Soul of India lives in its Villages" ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ Today, as the world remembers the Mahatma, I would like to pay homage to his.
  • Born on 3 December in Zeradai, Bihar, Prasad emerged as a prominent leader of the Indian National Congress.
  • Leela Bordia is a socio- preneur who is credited with reviving the Blue Pottery of Jaipur.

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    Founders

    Dr. Abhay Bang was raised in Gandhiji’s Sevagram Ashram. Inspired by the life of the Mahatma, he was driven by the idea of serving the people of rural India at a very young age. Dr. Rani Bang, on the other hand, came from an affluent family, but was an ardent believer in simplicity and serving the people. Choosing a life of service over wealth, she joined her husband in what would be a life-long mission to serve the community. Together they echoed Mahatma Gandhi’s voice – Go to the villages of India.

    After completing their respective post-graduation degrees as MD in Medicine and MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the desire to engage in impactful public health service and research in Indian villages, led them to the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Upon their return, they decided that research is to be conducted where the problems are, and not where the facilities are. In their joint quest to find effective ways of solving the biggest healthcare challenges in the commun

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    Pioneers of Indian Ceramics

    Anyone working in clay in India in the early seventies, in the vacuum between the industrial ceramic complex and the traditional rural potter, was a pionjär. Ceramic as art? Well that was an uphill battle everywhere apart from the Far East.

    In , I met Deborah Smith in the ceramics department of the University of Southern California. We discovered in each other a vague interest in the philosophies of the East and would meet igen in India.

    My ceramic background was a mix of Carlton Balls-California-Japanese cone10 functional stoneware with a dash of Clayton Bailey funk. My work had already morphed into sculpture before I finished a BFA in ceramics in

    Deborah’s background in clay was in Japan with ceramic sculptor Araki Takako and master potter Yamamoto Toshu in Bizen. She went to Japan to immerse herself in a craft, to submit to a practice with a mästare. Clay was not a passion; she was looking for discipline, not a career.

    In Los Angeles Deborah en

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    Padma Shree Lt. Sardar Gurcharan Singh

    The late Sardar Gurcharan Singh became a potter by accident – he went o help his father’s friend, Ram Singh Kabuli in his brick-making business at Delhi Potteries in , where he became fascinated by pottery, watching the Pathan potters who had migrated to India at work and actually learning the basics of the craft from Abdullah. He was sent to Tokyo in by Kabuli to study commercial ceramics. He spent two years at the Higher Technical School in Tokyo where he met Bernard Leach, Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. He held his first solo exhibition in Tokyo. He returned to India in to continue work at Delhi Potteries but his increased attraction to studio pottery made him switch to art ceramics from commercial work. With partition, he shifted to Ambala as Superintendent of the Pottery Training Centre there and remained here till his retirement in He then returned to Delhi where with Abdullah he started Delhi Blue Art Pottery&n

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