Nausheen Bari

Jaipur, August 31st. “On behalf of the Jawahar Kala Kendra, (JKK) I welcome you to Breaking Ground, India’s first ever Ceramics Triennale,” said JKK’s director general Pooja Sood to the large audience.

Toranagallu is a remote village in Karnataka, near the ruins of Hampi, the capital of the once mighty Vijayanagara empire. Located in the heart of a high-grade iron ore belt, Toranagallu is home to the Jindal Steel Works, one of the factories of the JSW conglomerate, India’s second largest steel company.