What's in a name?
Names are fascinating - why they were chosen, how they are adapted, what they convey when you hear them for the first time and how they relate to the actual individuals to whom they belong. In my case each of my (four!) names has some significance that has directly or indirectly impacted my life. SITA is my first name (to the delight to those who check passports in Indian airports) given to me because of my parents' deep love for the sub-continent and their enjoyment of the stories in the Ramayana in which Sita is abducted and finally rescued by Rama. She is regarded as the epitome of womanhood - devoted, modest, loyal and, of course beautiful. This says more about my parents' inflated expectations than of my intrinsic characteristics. [...]
Pottery
My mother was a sculptress - maybe that is where my lately developed interest in clay and ceramics originates, though I don't remember working with clay in her studio when I was a child. What I like about clay is its three-dimensionality and its solidity. I also like the mix of beauty and utilitarianism as well as the fine line between a pot that is handsome and one that is ungainly. "The precise and the perfect carries no overtones, admits of no freedom; the perfect is static, regulated, cold and hard. We in our own human imperfections are repelled by the perfect, since everything is apparent from the start and there is no suggestion of the infinite. Beauty must have some room, must be associated with freedom. Freedom, indeed, is beau [...]
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