Story Of RaviKriti Pottery, Chandigarh

The Tribune reports

Young Ravi was very good with her hands while at school in Nagpur. Her embroidery was very neat and her other craft was put on permanent display after she passed out from school. This skill lay dormant as she did her graduation and came as a bride to Chandigarh, married to businessman M.M.S. Chawla.

“I joined an interior decoration course so as to be able to redecorate my own house. I had no plans to be an entrepreneur but things were destined to be so,” says Ms Chawla.

The pot came out unusually beautiful and a visitor to her brother-in-law’s house on the first floor told her: after seeing the pot “Make a few more and I will hold an exhibition of these pots.” The exhibition held at Shivalikview Hotel was a complete sell-out.

Not only does every embassy in the country boast of her artefacts, she is exporting those to the USA, the UK, Australia and even China, which is the home of pottery. Her creations are displayed in Rashtrapati Bhavan and also find place in popular television soaps like ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thhi’ and ‘Kahin To Hoga’.

Ravi’s stained glass panels have many takers in spite of stiff competition. “My greatest joy in the 14-year-long art entrepreneurship was making a stained glass mural on Sikh history. I made a four-panel mural on an episode from Guru Tegh Bahadur’s life,” she says.