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Mandana murals were done once a year, at Diwali, and sometimes at other festivals like Holi, but the painting was part of a larger way of life</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222697509", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0638_R76hyRj.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0621_0mzWJI8.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0621_0mzWJI8.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Elderly women from the community sitting in the sun</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222698045", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0621_0mzWJI8.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0613-Cropped2_NdkOEVm.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0613-Cropped2_NdkOEVm.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Prem Meena or Prem Didi is one of the few in her community who still practices this art, and she has taught it to her daughter</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222698592", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0613-Cropped2_NdkOEVm.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0901.JPG", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0901.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>When houses were made from mud and clay adobe, they had to be rigorously maintained, with new applications of mud every year. \u00a0This exhausting process too was done mostly by the women in the family. It kept the homes intact and protected. These homes kept cool in the summers and warm in the winters. 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They use white paint, made from chalk, as the standout colour</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222699369", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0681_THlc6HF.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0755_SmztqpT.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0755_SmztqpT.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A handmade brush, fresh from use</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222699446", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0755_SmztqpT.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0741_9BKIP9N.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0741_9BKIP9N.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>The women in the community openly spoke about their art, though it is rare for outsiders to witness them at work</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222699707", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0741_9BKIP9N.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0775_7E3JmgZ.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0775_7E3JmgZ.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Here, mother and daughter work together to smoothen the floor and add design\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222699793", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0775_7E3JmgZ.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Meena women: custodians of the white walls", "src": "/media/original_images/DSC_0649_Usy12Xg.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/DSC_0649_Usy12Xg.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>A completed wall mural in Lasadia\u00a0</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>This Talking Album , a p</i><i>art of the Vanishing Communities series on PARI,\u00a0</i><i>records the story of the Meena tribe in Tonk, Rajasthan\u00a0</i></p>", "url": "/en/albums/meena-women-custodians-of-the-white-walls/", "slide_photographer": ["Sweta Daga"], "image_captured_date": "14 Sep,2015", "slide_location": "Tonk, Rajasthan", "track_id": "222699981", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/DSC_0649_Usy12Xg.height-876.jpg\" />"}], "authors": [{"type": "inline", "show_title": "False", "name": "Sweta Daga", "bio": "Sweta Daga is a Bengaluru-based writer and photographer, and a 2015 PARI fellow. 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