“I thought I would find a good number of buyers for clay pots this year, but COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on my business.

Earlier, people would come out on to the streets and buy our pots, bearing the scorching heat. I would sell 100 -120 pots each day at the same time last year, but now, I hardly manage to sell 8 -10 of them. We wait for the summer season all year, and now it is almost coming to an end, but I could not sell even half of the stock.

Even though people are slowly drifting towards earthenware again, it’s extremely difficult for people like us to sustain further.

I have three people to feed at home, and my only source of income is this clay pot business. I ended up spending all my savings to survive this pandemic and now I have no money to pay for my children’s college fees for the next academic year. I could not study and always wanted my children to but now I feel helpless. We do not know whether the business will survive, and my children’s future depends on it.

Even if the government lifts the lockdown completely, I don’t think people would confidently come out and buy pots. I know that nothing is going to be like earlier, but I will continue to work hard for my children’s future!”

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