Hazaribagh
— — the plateau the forest forgot to give back.
Not only on a wall.
“A district town in eastern India whose name reads, in Persian, as a thousand gardens. The plateau holds it at about six hundred metres, and the sal forest closes in on three sides. Canary Hill sits above the town like a green shoulder. The national park north of the road still carries the bones of an older country, when the tigers came down to the lakes at dusk and the British shooting blocks were marked out in numbered squares. The light in November is the colour of dry grass. from the studio
Hazaribagh, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Hazaribagh is a district headquarters in Jharkhand, in eastern India, on the northern shoulder of the Chota Nagpur plateau. The town sits at roughly 610 metres above sea level, about 90 kilometres north of the state capital Ranchi along NH-33. The name comes from the Persian for a thousand gardens. The region was carved out of older Bihar when Jharkhand was formed in 2000, and the plateau is one of India's oldest landmasses, drained by the Damodar and its tributaries. Sal forest still covers much of the surrounding hills.
The plateau gives Hazaribagh a milder air than the plains below. Summer maxima rarely climb past the mid-thirties Celsius and winter mornings settle into single digits, with November and December often clearing to a cold blue sky. The local name for the season the British called the cold weather is hemant. The town once drew sanatoria patients for that reason, and the road north toward Barhi still runs through ridges where the air thins and the sal gives way to scrub. Mist holds in the valleys until mid-morning.
Hazaribagh National Park lies about 19 kilometres north of the town and was notified in 1954, covering roughly 184 square kilometres of dry deciduous forest. The park's old British shooting towers, called machans, still stand at several waterholes. Canary Hill, just outside town, is the local sunset walk, with a viewing tower above the lake. The nearest airport is Ranchi, two and a half hours by road, and the Koderma station on the Grand Chord line carries the night trains from Delhi and Howrah.