{"slides": [{"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/1_Mzl5jgA.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/1_Mzl5jgA.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>It\u2019s called English, this Dalit hamlet off the Amarpur-Shambhuganj road in \u00a0Banka district of Bihar. \u00a0It\u2019s in Amarpur block, after the turn at English More (as the Hindi word '<i>mode'\u00a0</i>or \u2018turn\u2019 is spelt in online searches). The hamlet has around 25 houses amid lush mustard fields. All the residents share the same last name \u2013 Maholi \u2013 and they all weave baskets.<br/></p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/1_Mzl5jgA.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/2_G0MjR7Q.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/2_G0MjR7Q.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Sanju Maholi, 30, has been weaving baskets since he was 15. He says, \u201cThe Maholis were a community who lived on the banks of the Chandan river [in Banka] and burnt dead bodies for a living. Many years ago my great grandfather and some others spilt from the community and took up this occupation. Weaving baskets is more respectable than burning bodies.\u201d<br/></p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/2_G0MjR7Q.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/3_BuQi93J.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/3_BuQi93J.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Rupa Devi (left) and Malti Devi are from neighbouring hamlets. They learnt the art of basket weaving after they got married and came here. \u201cI start the weaving work after finishing the daily house chores by late noon,\u201d Rupa Devi says.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/3_BuQi93J.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/4_EpZ3Elm.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/4_EpZ3Elm.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Techan Devi Maholi has been making baskets for three decades. She says, \u201cWomen are more efficient basket weavers and we can make more baskets than men in a day. My son and daughter-in-law left me and went to the city 10 years ago. I live alone and weave baskets for a living. Other women in the village don\u2019t get to keep the money from their labour. But since I live alone. I am my own boss.\u201d</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/4_EpZ3Elm.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/5_7WAVnVo.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/5_7WAVnVo.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>While Malti Devi is busy completing her fourth basket of the day, her grandson Golu Maholi freshens up after his evening play time, preparing to get down to his school homework.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/5_7WAVnVo.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/6.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/6.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>It takes 4-5 days to turn bamboos into baskets. The bamboo splitting, drying and weaving are simultaneous processes. Each person makes 4-5 baskets a day.</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. Three generations ago, they gave up burning bodies and took up the more respectable occupation of making baskets</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/making-baskets-in-english/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "27 Nov,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/6.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Making baskets in English", "src": "/media/original_images/7_IUl0rhi.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/7_IUl0rhi.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Vendors come to collect the baskets to be sold in neighbouring markets. The basket weavers get Rs. 90-120 rupees for each basket, depending on the size and design. The demand peaks from October to early January, during the wedding season and Chhath puja (a four-day Hindu festival in Bihar and neighbouring north Indian states).</p></div>", "album_description": "<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>This Dalit hamlet in Bihar's Banka district is called English, and all the residents here have the same last name. 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