Baban Mahato is a master at crafting a duli -- a very large bamboo basket used to store paddy in West Bengal. He speaks in hand measures and traditional weights when describing his work – making tall and wide baskets to store the paddy harvest. From Bihar, craftspersons like him have been migrating to neighbouring states to make bamboo baskets for over a hundred years
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