
Snake boat race support boats and Kerala backwaters during Vallam Kali
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Support and rescue boats operate alongside traditional Chundan Vallam snake boats during a Vallam Kali (snake boat race) in Kerala, India.
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Kashmiri craftsmen make cricket bats from willow wood at Sangam Bijbehara in Kashmir, India. Cricket is the most popular sport in India. Go to any part in India from Jammu & Kashmir in the north to Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the south or from Maharashtra in the west to Assam in the east, you would definitely spot a bunch of boys busy with a cricket bat hitting a ball. Behind the towering willows, Kashmir’s cricket bat industry is a living, breathing, manufacturing industry, as the bats are handmade at a local factory. Forty kilometers from Srinagar is Sangam, the veiled world of the Kashmiri willow and cricket bat makers. The willow clefts obtained from the willow trees here are being fashioned to manufacture quality cricket bats. Kashmir willow is largely utilized by cricket bat manufacture
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