New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- It is the crack of dawn in Uttam Nagar's Prajapati Colony - the potters' village - and 30-year-old Kehar Singh is already at work. A truck has rumbled in from Faridabad, delivering more than two tonnes of fresh clay, enough to sustain his work for the month. His mother is awake too, seated on the cool earthen floor with a mound of clay beside her. With movements that look almost ritualistic, she presses her fingers deep into the wet mass, folding and turning it in a way others knead dough. As the wheel spins, she raises her hands and coaxes the clay upward. It widens, narrows, curves - and soon transforms into a vase with a slender, graceful neck. In a few days, after hardening and baking, that vase will join the others...