Our main profession is potter. Our 8 generations have been supporting our family by doing this profession. I am 66 years old now. It has been 48 years since I started making pottery for a living.

My grandfather Krishna Narayan and father Devi Narayan also did the same job. Apart from that, I have raised animals. I also do some farming. But, I earn the necessary fish-meat, rags-clothes for the house, and the children by making paper and pens. I have five daughters and two sons. One son is in the Nepali Army. One son had given the language test to go to Korea to earn money. But he could not pass. Except for two daughters, all have passed the 12th standard. Except for the youngest son, all are married. This is how the family has been going on happily and happily. My younger brother Tul Bahadur and younger brother Purna Bahadur also know this job. They have also adopted the same profession. But they have not done this job for four-five years. Both my sons have some knowledge of pottery. However, it is difficult to adopt this profession. One is an army employee, he does not want to. If he finishes his job later, he will work, otherwise he has no choice. The younger one is also working in the Terramrida Carbon Coffee Plantation Program in Diktel Bazaar. The skills are for them, if they are wise, they will do it, if not, they will do something else.

My house is in Khalle-4, Rupakot, Majhuwagadhi Municipality, Diktel. Now, my grandmother and I are supporting this profession by doing household chores, livestock, and farming. We do not earn much money from this. The pottery is made for three hundred to five to seven thousand rupees. But, there is no market. Earlier, there was a lot of sales.

Earlier, there was not much money in the village. Money made from utensils used to relieve suffering. This could be used to do a lot of work. Earlier, instead of money, work was done with grain. This is not the case today. If you have money, you can have everything, if you don't, you can't have anything. Now, the time has come for selfishness.

Until eight to ten years ago, there were many types of utensils such as phunga, paini, rice, dal, sisnu, khapeta, gamla, makal, and dhupouro. However, now, with the development of various types of utensils, earthenware utensils have stopped being sold. They say that utensils made from clay are good for health, but the practice is no longer in vogue.

Three types of clay are needed to make earthenware. Kamero, red, and black clay are needed. There is no clay mine in your own garden. You have to bring clay from other people's gardens. That too has been abandoned. It is available in one or two places, and that too is far away.

The community forest group has to pay three to four hundred rupees for the soil at a time. If the soil is brought from the mine to the tractor, one tractor can last for a year. Earlier, the wheel was also big. It was difficult for those who did not have strength to operate it. But three years ago, ward chairman Khagendra Rai brought an easy electric wheel with the ward budget. After that, it has become easier. I work when there is electricity, and when there is no electricity, I do other work. This is how it works - my profession is my business.