Arun hails from a traditional family of potters residing in a village in Laxmikantapur in South 24 Parganas. Characteristically this village is a potters’ village in the true sense as most of the inhabitants are professional potters creating thousands and thousands of fired clay items for daily use which are transported to Kolkata on a daily basis. Arun joined Crafts Council of West Bengal in 1993 at the time the Council was setting up a pottery unit.  As an apprentice he helped Professor Rameshwar Dayal Prajapati, Sr. Professor in the Department of Pottery in Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan to build a Kiln incorporating indigenous technology. This gave him the knowledge  and expertise for building this type of kiln which he had used later in our second Pottery Unit. As an apprentice he helped to set up the pottery unit. He himself manufactured the tiles which were used for building the tile of roof in our unit for our building. He made the potters’ wheels which he and his colleagues used for creating objects. Mr. Jim Keeling a most famous traditional potter in Britain being interested in the traditional rural pottery of Bengal visited Kolkata and worked at Pottery Unit of Crafts Council of West Bengal with the Council’s traditional rural potters. Jim trained them in certain technologies which helped specially Arun to improve the quality and durability of his products. With the help of new technology and simple tools devised by Jim Keeling, Arun was able to develop Jali work and new designs and forms in his products which were suitable for the urban market. Later under Mr. Robinson, a technologist, who was sent by BESU he was able to develop his skill further. He was fortunate enough to apprentice under Mr. K. B. Jinan, KUMBHAM  in 2006.  In a workshop conducted by Swapan Kumar Jana he was able to learn about colours. He has participated in various exhibitions in metro cities successfully.