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Walk into Seventh Sense, and you are met with the thematic display in keeping with the Pongal festival. Pots, paanais, kadais, ladles, choolhas, the variety is immense. Made of terracotta and glazed to perfection, the items are selling like hot cakes. So much so that many of the stuff have 'Sample' labels on them. Though the sale was to begin on January 9 and last till the 12th, once word spread the stuff just vanished.
For those days which are not likely to return, days when cooking meant earthenware pots and utensils, hours spent huddled over smoking choolhas, it is thanks to Kanchana for taking us back to the past. Of memories to be cherished! Sethulakshmy Nayar The Seventh Sense http://www4.brinkster.com/seventhsensecandle/home.html
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Christmas and New Year may have gone by but for those who have not come off the celebration mode, Pongal is round the corner. While the city is abuzz with shoppers trying to beat their neighbours to the numerous sales, keeping up with the trendy and the hip, tucked away in Gandhi Nagar Fourth Main Road is an exhibition with a difference.
"I never expected such a response," says owner and designer S Kanchana, who started the shop in her house six months ago. Till then she had been holding exhibitions outside and also exhibiting the work of other artistes. But with high overheads it is simpler to operate from home and there is no lack of space in the premises in her case. The baking, glazing, finishing touches are all done in-house, the artisans coming in to work from the mofussil areas. Depending on the intricacy of the work involved, it takes anything between 10 to 20 days for a finished product, she says.
Kanchana concentrates on a theme a month. For December, she had aromatherapy designer candles and before that it was beaded jewellery. And this month it is Pongal. She hit upon the idea because many may not even be aware of the kind of utensils that were in use in the past. It is not easy to find such things in the city and where is the question of using them in the modular kitchens in today's flats, she asks. From then, the past two months have been taken up by the hectic preparations.
The price range too is attractive, from Rs 10 to Rs 150. You can take your pick from cups and saucers to soup bowls, lamps and bells of all sizes and shapes. "I have always been interested in such work," says Kanchana and her enthusiasm is infectious.
