Brahmdeo Ram Pandit

Biography I am happy that ceramic art is getting recognition on par with other arts. This award will definitely encourage ceramic pottery artisans. Brahmdeo Ram Pandit, on winning Padma Shri in the Nawada district, in the Indian state of Bihar, to Ram Pandit, a pottery maker who had learned histrade from his father, Murthi Pandit. He learned the basic craft of pottery making from his father and joined Sekho Devra Ashram in Kawakole, Nawada for formal training in pottery making which he completed in 1969. and studied at the Central Village Pottery Institute, run by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission. In 1970, after completing his course the Belgaum institute, he joined, as an apprentice, at Aaj Studio, under the tutelage of Laxman R. Ajgaonkar, and worked there for a year. In 1971, he enrolled himself at the J. J. School of Art, Mumbai and studied clay modelling and sculpture, till 1976. Another scholarship assisted him to join Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and studied there till 1981. Another ten years of learning on advanced pottery making in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore rounded up his studies in 1991. a manufacturing unit of modest proportions, in 1981, at Kalakar Niwas in Bhayandar, a city in Thane district of Maharashtra, for the mass production of his creations. and Deborah Smith of the Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry and a winner of Chares Wallace India Trust award The Rashtrapati Bhavan has displayed five of his creations in its art gallery. use the creations from Brahmdeo Ram Pandit. One of his ceramic art installation, Water, has been commissioned at the terminal II of the Mumbai International Airport. National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai and Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi. Paramparik Karigar has hosted several of his exhibitions.

Pandit's creations have been included in a book, Contemporary Ceramics, edited by Emmanuel Cooper.

Awards and recognitions Brahmadeo Ram Pandit has been recognized for his art by many organizations. He is a two-time winner of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Award and has won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Award once which he received in 2007. The state of Maharashtra presented him with the state award in 1991 and in 2008, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India conferred the title Shilp Guru on him. Four years later, in 2012, the Government of Bihar awarded him the Pravasi Bihar Shri. This was followed by the award of Padma Shri, which he received the next year, in 2013.