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Kashmir: Srinagar youth strives to revive dying glazed pottery

A woman gets a drink of water from an earthenware pot at a public water station in Ahmedabad, India May 20, 2016. [Reuters]

A 26-year-old commerce graduate from Srinagar is aiming to revive the age-old but ‘dying’ art of glazed pottery in Kashmir after learning it from an octogenarian, who he claims is the only person alive to know the art.

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