Bhaktapur’s pottery shows how traditional art, even with a few people, can survive the modern age

On warm sunny winter days, Roshan Prajapati is seen busy moulding wet clay using an electric pottery wheel at the Pottery Square in Bhaktapur. For ages, the square has remained a centre of the pottery industry of the capital.

Like Roshan, many men of his neighbourhood are busy moulding clay into different shapes there whereas their female colleagues are seen mixing mud or clay with a machine, decorating, drying, and colouring the pottery in the courtyard and alleys.