{"slides": [{"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Four hundred years afloat, still knocking on wood", "src": "/media/original_images/01_9MrQWOz.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/01_9MrQWOz.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Mandvi shipbuilding yard is located at Bandar Road by the 16th century Mandvi port in Kutch, Gujarat</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. 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These handmade vessels are still used to transport cargo to ports in West Asia</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. Ships made in Mandvi still carry\ncargo to West Asian countries 400 years after the port was established</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/four-hundred-years-afloat-still-knocking-on-wood/", "slide_photographer": ["Ritayan Mukherjee"], "image_captured_date": "10 May,2017", "slide_location": "Kutch, Gujarat", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/02_8VRK5PJ.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Four hundred years afloat, still knocking on wood", "src": "/media/original_images/03_ZNgJOB8.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/03_ZNgJOB8.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Inside a <i>dhow</i>, workers move large logs of wood by hand</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. Ships made in Mandvi still carry\ncargo to West Asian countries 400 years after the port was established</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/four-hundred-years-afloat-still-knocking-on-wood/", "slide_photographer": ["Ritayan Mukherjee"], "image_captured_date": "10 May,2017", "slide_location": "Kutch, Gujarat", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/03_ZNgJOB8.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Four hundred years afloat, still knocking on wood", "src": "/media/original_images/04_GbZnB2h.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/04_GbZnB2h.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A worker shapes logs sitting inside a <i>dhow</i> that is under construction</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. Ships made in Mandvi still carry\ncargo to West Asian countries 400 years after the port was established</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/four-hundred-years-afloat-still-knocking-on-wood/", "slide_photographer": ["Ritayan Mukherjee"], "image_captured_date": "10 May,2017", "slide_location": "Kutch, Gujarat", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/04_GbZnB2h.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Four hundred years afloat, still knocking on wood", "src": "/media/original_images/05_8c4Pg7a.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/05_8c4Pg7a.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Balancing act: a worker crosses a high beam in a <i>dhow</i> that will be three storeys high when finished</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. Ships made in Mandvi still carry\ncargo to West Asian countries 400 years after the port was established</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/four-hundred-years-afloat-still-knocking-on-wood/", "slide_photographer": ["Ritayan Mukherjee"], "image_captured_date": "10 May,2017", "slide_location": "Kutch, Gujarat", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/05_8c4Pg7a.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Four hundred years afloat, still knocking on wood", "src": "/media/original_images/06_9x6MIX7.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/06_9x6MIX7.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>The builders shape the logs by hand to match the curves of the boat. Their skills make an extremely demanding task look effortless</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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. 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Workers call these <i>patias</i></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>Images\nfrom Mandvi in Kutch, Gujarat, where workers with skills inherited over\ngenerations make wooden </i>dhows<i> using </i>sal<i> and </i>babul<i> timber. 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