A SONET TO KHURJA

The small town of Khurja in Uttar Pradesh is home to some of India’s most unique ceramic handicrafts and we take the Kia Sonet to explore this city that has preserved its craft since the fourteenth century

The design began the day man picked up a piece of clay and shaped it into something from his imagination. Everything around us, from the cars we drive to the phones we can’t seem to get enough of have been designed from a derivative of that very basic expression. In India not too far from the country’s capital, is a small town that has preserved the tradition of turning clay into beautiful ceramic products that range from delicate crockery to carefully crafted decorative vases, for over six hundred years. The perfect location to explore with our Kia Sonet, a car whose striking design ensures that it stands out in the crowd of compact SUVs. The town in question is Khurja in Uttar Pradesh, about 200km from Delhi where almost six centuries ago a group of Pashtun soldiers from Timur’s army retreating from a battle decided to throw down their arms and settle down and pursue more artistic endeavours.