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Beside a dusty village road in Bengal in the EAST, I came upon this man - called a ‘thathera’* -

beating tin strips into a bucket shape.

First he decorated the tin by puncturing holes in its surface with a pin to make interesting

patterns. Then he rolled the metal into a cylinder (as he is doing

here) and making a great racket, he bashed the two ends together with

small pins. Finally he attached the base of the bucket in the same way.

They look very pretty, don’t you think?

* This is the word in Hindi

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