Religion

Meet Ibrahim Yusuf Bharwada. He is 79. A potter who has been giving shape to earthen lamps for the past 69 years. For nearly seven decades, Ibrahim’s hands have moulded clay into symbols of light and tradition, shaping diyas and pots in the heart of Kumbharwada, Dharavi, Mumbai. His hands are rough, but steady, carrying the weight of generations that have practiced this craft before him. In this small corner of Dharavi, Ibrahim stands as one of the many guardians of an ancient art, passed down through bloodlines and carried forward by the collective spirit of the community. “I started when I was just 10,” Ibrahim recalls with a nostalgic smile. “Back then, it wasn’t just about making diyas. It was about survival, about continuing what my father and his father did. Today, it is more than...