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Harpreet Ahluwalia’s Tryst with Nature: Creating Green Space in Your Life

Rajen Kumar
Jul 2010

 

Humility strikes when one meets her. The mismerising smile worn on her face wears not even an iota of arrogance of a person who has ‘achieved’ through a fund of talent and unusual creativity. “Nothing is lacking in my life,” says she as her smile broadens beyond any doubt. She appears contentment personified.
 
Meet Harpreet Ahluwalia, the woman of many talents. Her tryst with nature suggests that Nature and Harpreet have found a compatible companion.
 
Her home in Noida is like a museum of pots and plants. The entrance is dotted by hundreds of Plants with a variety of themes. Birds, animal shaped pots, water bodies, hangings, danglers, and lot more, all oozing out a message of love and passion. “My all animals are smiling,” she is quick to tell displaying her unusual optimism.
 
Earthly Creations
 
It all started when she got a potter custom design a few pots for her. She decorated them with plants in rhythm with different themes to make them meaningful. People started liking them and she got orders for more such pots and plants. She soon found that she is in the business and launched Earthly Creations, about a decade ago.
 
Says Harpreet, “While plants, flowers are available in plenty in the mushrooming nurseries all across, finesse was to be created, nurtured. And that was the space I intended to be in.
 
Woman in a plant nursery
 
“My vision was to transform the traditional eye sight into an object of radiance – wherein I could provide an incredible experience to one and all, where in everything was in place and there was a place for everything.”
 
Giving a material shape to the images that she had formed in her mind, she needed potters who will understand her creative instincts. “Yes this was a critical challenge,” she agrees with a winning smile. She began finding the befitting potters in the lanes and by lanes of far flung places across many states. “Each milestone was littered with dead ends and more stones, yet I trudged on and slowly created a pool of over 40 potters who were made to understand the language of my thoughts, across 5 states, mostly from the below the poverty line families.” That creativity is kind and the creator is taller by the scale of humanity is amply proved by Harpreet.
 
An Insight
 
Her interactions with the money-poor and aesthetically-rich potters gave her an insight into their blank lives, their looming fears and insecurities topped with their traditional mindset moved Harpreet beyond any measures. 
 
“I resolved within to create a socio-economic venture not only to rediscover their latent talent but also wipe a tear or two from their expressionless tired faces.”
 
Harpreet has since come a long way. She is a regular participant in over 40 apex exhibitions pan India, with over 800 authentic creations being a part of the offering. Over 100,000 creations have been showcased in over 50 cities in India and in over 10 countries globally. Creditable indeed!

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BeckyKELLY21
26 Feb 2013 (09:54:50)
Cars and houses are quite expensive and not everybody can buy it. But, loan are created to help people in such kind of cases.