Ep 257: Objects Speak to Annapurna Garimella
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Studio Pottery - The Art of the Handmaid
Gurshn sing was an Indian potter who started making dilly blue ceramics after independence. He worked in the factory where willingdon airport is now, and would have been seeing lots of things. The clay he used to make his pots comes from japanese stoneware that's not a native body so it doesn't absorb chi. This does not absorb the glaze which starts absorbing the chi when you pour tea over it. So gurushean sing decides how oldTea is because Tea is like Waterfall: It has some sense but also no sense at all about its own history.
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