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  • Fremont, California | 2014<br />
Sikhs celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, at the Fremont Gurdwara.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Sudhesh Lal, field officer for the Fiji Sugar Corporation, makes the morning rounds, meeting the sirdars -- the overseers of the cane gangs -- to announce the daily quota of cane each gang may sell to the mill, to record the serial numbers of the cane trucks so that the gangs may be properly credited, and to issue forms so that the gangs can order more supplies from the mill
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Preparing kava (crushed yaqoni root mixed with water, also called grog) to serve ar Arvendra's wedding
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  • Easter kite flying along the seawall. Georgetown, Guyana.
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  • Manhattan, New York | 2008<br />
During his first presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama attends a fundraiser organized by South Asians for Obama at a private home on the Upper East Side.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Descendants of indentured laborers who came from India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Roop Narayan and Basant Kumar cut sugarcane as members of Gang 12. Colonial-era laws prevent Indo-Fijians from owning land, so they must lease their holdings from native Fijian landlords and work as tenant farmers.
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  • Leicester, United Kingdom: Men play cards at a luncheon club for the elderly, most of whom are from North India and East Africa, which meets weekly at a Hindu temple.
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  • Durban, South Africa | 2005<br />
A row of houses rises in the township of Phoenix on a former sugar estate near the site of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s Phoenix Settlement, a center of activism and spirituality first developed in 1904. The young London-trained lawyer fought for the rights of Indian laborers in the British colony and articulated his philosophies of non-violent resistance. It was in South Africa that he was first given the title Mahatma (“great soul”). In 1915 Gandhi returned to India to join and eventually lead its independence movement.
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  • Manalapan, New Jersey: Ashok (left) takes a lunch break during the festivities for his 60th birthday.
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  • Atlantic City, New Jersey: Bollywood music fans pack the auditorium at Trump Taj Mahal for a concert by Sonu Nigam.
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  • Atlanta, Georgia | 2003<br />
Contestants prepare backstage for the Miss Teen India Georgia Pageant, held at Georgia Tech University.
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  • Brooklyn, New York | 2008<br />
Musician and composer Neel Murgai plays sitar for several groups, including Mission on Mars, an eclectic jazz-fusion combo, shown here at a club in Williamsburg, with Kaeshi Chai of Bellyqueen Dance Theater.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Descendants of indentured laborers who came from India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Roop Narayan and Basant Kumar cut sugarcane as members of Gang 12. Colonial-era laws prevent Indo-Fijians from owning land, so they must lease their holdings from native Fijian landlords and work as tenant farmers.
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  • Southall, United Kingdom: The Central Jamia Masjid is unable to accommodate all of its worshippers for Friday prayers, as crowds block the surrounding streets and sidewalks
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia: Banana grower John Arkan is an elected member of the Coffs Harbor City Council. His grandfather came to this region on the mid-north coast of New South Wales in 1895. Sikhs took up banana farming in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugarcane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Manhattan, New York | 2005<br />
Men dance at Desilicious, a South Asian LGBTQ event held monthly at nightclubs in New York.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Bansi Lal, 69, is the tractor driver for Gang 12, responsible for taking the loaded cane trucks to the tracks where a locomotive will transport them to the Labasa mill for processing
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Bhawna says goodbye to her relatives before she leaves her home to go with Arvendra after their wedding
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  • Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Sailors reposition their dhows along the corniche
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  • Durban beach, South Africa
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  • Barack Obama brings his presidential campaign to a fundraiser on the Upper East Side. Manhattan, New York
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  • Manhattan: New Yorkers gather in Union Square for a vigil in support of the victims of the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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  • Los Angeles, California | 2005<br />
Aditya Rao sings lead for The Throws, a Los Angeles-based rock band, at Artwallah, an annual festival of South Asian visual arts, music, dance, film, and literature.
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  • Nairobi, Kenya | 2007<br />
Kamran Fazal with his terriers, India and Hugo, at his home in 2007. He was born with a rare genetic disease called Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia Kozlowski type, which affects the growth of the spine. He died in 2011 at age 19, due to surgical complications, as he was preparing to attend university in Spain.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji | 2012<br />
Kamal Deo performs the lengha dance at Arvendra and Bhawna’s wedding. Men performing wedding dances dressed as women is tradition in some Indo-Fijian communities. A cane cutter who lives with his wife and daughter, he earns more money as a wedding dancer with the nickname “Gorilla,” in demand throughout Fiji, than he does cutting cane.
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  • Maracas Bay, Trinidad | 2009<br />
After preparing and selling the day’s catch, fishermen gamble at wapee, based on the English card game all fours.
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  • Nairobi, Kenya: Kamran Fazal with his terriers, India and Hugo in 2007. He was born with a rare genetic disease called Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia Kozlowski type, which affects the growth of the spine. He died in 2011 at age 19, due to surgical complications, as he was preparing to attend university in Spain. His sister, Raeesa, said, "Despite his condition, life for Kamran was far from a challenge but more like a party. Laughter and love followed wherever he was"
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  • Southall, United Kingdom<br />
Gurinder and Ranj Singh watch their daughter, Riya, take her first steps
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  • Nairobi, Kenya | 2007<br />
Former captain of Kenya’s national cricket squad, which competed in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups, Aasif Karim poses with wife Nanzeen, daughters Fatema and Zainab, and sons Irfan and Imran. Kenya won two matches in 2003, and Aasif was named Man of the Match for his performance against Australia, even though his side lost. Now he is the managing director of an insurance brokerage in Nairobi and also works as a property developer.
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  • Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates | 2004<br />
Boys play volleyball at a waterpark popular with the local Indian community. Known for its luxury properties and guest workers from South Asia, the UAE has long been a trading hub and home to Indians, even before the oil boom and economic expansion of recent decades. Indians who live in the UAE form the core of the local middle class, owning shops and businesses and building their own schools and social organizations.
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  • Hollywood, California: An animated Sikh character invites passersby to enter the Guinness Book of World Records Museum
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  • Pleasanton, California | 2014<br />
Kids play in bubble riders as part of the Diwali festivities at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji. Roop Narayan, Suresh Singh, Sanju Prasad, and Sachin Kumar take an afternoon break from cane cutting to drink grog, which is crushed yaqoni root mixed with water. The result is a muddy, non-narcotic liquid with sedative properties
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  • Mentakab, Malaysia: A British-educated labor lawyer in private practice, A. Sivanesan speaks in temples throughout peninsular Malaysia to raise money for the families of five Hindu activists who were jailed under the Internal Security Act and to encourage Indians and other minorities to stand up for their rights. He later won a seat in parliament as a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), Malaysia’s largest secular minority party.
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  • Sharjah, UAE: The MSV Shree Mahalaxmi, a Indian-flagged dhow, with a crew from Gujarat
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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2004<br />
Boys learn to play cricket at a camp in the desert outside the city of Dubai.
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  • Easter kite flying along the seawall. Georgetown, Guyana
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  • Wailea Settlment, Near Suva, Fiji | 2011<br />
Sambhu Lal, 69, worked for thirty-three years at the Labasa sugar mill while his family cut sugar cane. Their land lease expired in 2004 and was not renewed, forcing them to move to the outskirts of Suva, where his son now works in a sawmill. He transported his house by truck and boat from Labasa and reassembled it on leased land in a squatter settlement popular with displaced cane farmers.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji | 2011<br />
Descendants of indentured laborers who came from India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Roop Narayan and Basant Kumar cut sugar cane as members of Gang 12 of the Labasa Mill. Colonial-era laws prevent Indo-Fijians from owning land, so they must lease their holdings from native Fijian landlords and work as tenant farmers.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Premila Wati Kumar places money into a basket on her cousin's head, as part of a women's celebration during her son's wedding
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  • Leicester, United Kingdom | 2009<br />
Manjula Sood, the Lord Mayor of Leicester, meets with her constituents. In 2008, she became the first Asian woman Lord Mayor of a British town. The office is ceremonial, but as Leicester’s first citizen and chair of the city council, the Lord Mayor is the public face of Britain’s most ethnically diverse city.
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  • Shopping at the City Park Traders Market, a development project of the Aga Khan Foundation. Nairobi, Kenya
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  • Sunnyvale, California: Runners participate in a 10K race to raise money for Silicon Valley and Bay Area–based not-for-profit organizations.
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  • Tanjong Malim, Malaysia: A Hindu activist addresses a rally for the PAS, the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party. An opposition party, the PAS gained support from Indians and Chinese, most of whom are not Muslims, after the violent crackdown on the protest organized by HINDRAF. Non-Muslims see the PAS as one of several alternatives to the Barisan Nasional (National Front or BN), which has ruled Malaysia since independence and promotes Malay-first policies that discriminate against minorities
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: On weekends, Roneel Narayan helps his father and the other members of Gang 12 by clearing the brush so that the cane trucks can be loaded and moved. Currently in the seventh grade, he says he wants to attend the University of the South Pacific in Suva to study "whatever my parents can afford"
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  • Brighton, United Kingdom | 2010<br />
Begun in 1787 and completed in 1823, the Royal Pavilion was the seaside residence for monarchs George IV, William IV, and Victoria. During World War I, it was converted into a military hospital for Indian soldiers wounded while fighting for the British Empire. Separate medical facilities within the structure were provided to accommodate the differing caste and religious sensibilities of Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim soldiers. Today the building and grounds serve as a museum.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
A military honor guard presents Sukwinder Kaur with the American flag that had draped the coffin of her son. Parminder Singh Shergill, 43, who served in the US Army during the first Gulf War and struggled with mental illness, was shot by police near his home. Officers responding to a 911 call claimed he lunged at them with a knife. Witnesses disputed the police account. An investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Shergill was buried with military honors.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
Mourners attend the flag-draped coffin of Parminder Singh Shergill, a US Army veteran of the first Gulf War who was shot by police near his home.
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  • Labasa, Fiji: A worker at the Labasa sugar mill monitors the progress of the cane juice as it is crystallized into raw sugar
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  • Wailea Settlement, Suva, Fiji: Sambhu Lal, 69, worked for thirty-three years at the Labasa sugar mill, while his family cut sugarcane. Their lease expired in 2004 and was not renewed, forcing them to move to Suva, where his son now works in a sawmill. He brought his house from Labasa to Suva and reassembled it on leased land in a slum area popular with displaced farmers
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  • Suva, Fiji | 2011<br />
Roneel Chand (center) repairs shoes at a stall in downtown Suva, while his family grows cash crops on leased land in nearby Navua. He is the primary earner in his family, making, he says, up to FJD 100 (USD 50) a day repairing shoes.
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  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The 43-meter statue of Lord Murugan, built in 2006, sits at the base of Batu Caves, a mountaintop complex that houses a collection of temples and shrines first built by Indian laborers in the 1890s
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia | 2011<br />
Sikhs gather for a wedding at the Guru Nanak Temple. Woolgoolga is home to the largest Sikh community in Australia, many of whom are banana growers. Sikhs took up banana farming in Australia in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugar cane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Cane cutter Basant and Premila Kumar's granddaughters, Ayushi and Shanaya, visiting from Suva, sleep under mosquito netting.
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  • Labasa, Fiji. Arvendra Kumar and his male relatives wait for his bride
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  • Wembley, United Kingdom: The construction of the Shree Sanatan Mandir, a Hindu temple in northwest London, was completed after fourteen years and £16 million, utilizing artisans and laborers from India
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  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At a Hindu home for underprivileged boys
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  • Felicity, Trinidad
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  • Queens, New York | 2005<br />
Revelers celebrate Phagwah, the spring festival of colors, on the streets of Richmond Hill, New York’s largest Indo-Caribbean neighborhood. Commonly known as Holi in Hindi, Phagwah comes from Bhojpuri dialect of the north Indian regions to which many Indians from Guyana, Trinidad, and Suriname trace their heritage.
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  • Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Sailors reposition their dhows along the corniche
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  • Ozone Park, New York: Radhika Drebaul and her brother Dennis Jaikaran perform a jhandi ceremony, the dedication of Hindu prayer flags in the Indo-Guyanese tradition, on the anniversary of their monter's death
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Arvendra Kumar returns home for his wedding and shares an emotional moment with his mother, Premila Wati. Arvendra works in Latoka as a branch manager for an insurance company based in Suva.
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  • Durban, South Africa: Watching the sand sculptors
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  • Manhattan, New York | 2007<br />
As part of its Incredible India campaign, India’s Ministry of Tourism built a replica of the Taj Mahal in Bryant Park to celebrates India’s 60th anniversary of independence.
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  • San Jose, California: Cast members of Mount Madonna School’s stage performance of the Ramayana receive feedback from the directors during a dress rehearsal. Associated with a yoga center inspired by a silent monk and guru from India, the school has been performing the Ramayana annually since 1979.
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California: Daniel Clifton, a senior at Mount Madonna School, performs the role of Ram in a stage production of the Ramayana. Associated with a yoga center inspired by a silent monk and guru from India, the school has been performing the Ramayana annually since 1979.
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  • Wailea Settlement, Suva, Fiji: Sambhu Lal, 69, worked for thirty-three years at the Labasa sugar mill, while his family cut sugarcane. Their lease expired in 2004 and was not renewed, forcing them to move to Suva, where his son now works in a sawmill. He brought his house from Labasa to Suva and reassembled it on leased land in a slum area popular with displaced farmers
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  • Abbotsford, Canada: Sikh women form the core of the blueberry-picking and production labor force in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver.
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  • Mountain View, California | 2015<br />
Actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter Giju John (center) performs with his musical collaborator Mixman Shawn (in back) and dancers from BollyX to launch the music video for “Más Bhangratón,” a fusion of Indian bhangra and Caribbean reggaetón.
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  • Abbotsford, Canada | 2012<br />
Sikh women form the core of the blueberry-picking labor force in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver. Often elderly and living in the isolation of suburbia, many look forward to the picking season as an opportunity to spend time with their peers and earn money for their families.
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  • Surrey, Canada | 2012<br />
Concert-goers enjoy the Surrey Fusion Festival, near Vancouver, which features musicians, artists, dancers, and other groups from around the world.
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  • Manhattan, New York: Jazz pianist, Harvard professor, and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, Vijay Iyer.
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  • Santa Cruz, California | 2014<br />
On a tour of the United States, India’s first female professional surfer Ishita Malaviya spends an afternoon surfing with her partner Tushar Pathiyan (far left) and local surfers. Ishita and Tushar founded the Shaka Surf Club—India’s first—in Manipal.
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  • Nairobi, Kenya: Journalist, dissident, and former UN spokesman in Iraq, Salim Lone served as communications director for the Orange Democratic Movement, the opposition party led by Raila Odinga, who appeared to have won a narrow majority against incumbent Mwai Kabaki in the 2007 general election. But the results were disputed. In the riots and violence that followed, some 700 Kenyans were killed, many from the slums of Kibera and Mathare. After a power-sharing agreement, Odinga credited Lone with coordinating the mediation efforts that involved former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who helped negotiate the deal
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  • San Francisco, California | 2018<br />
Indian media company Hotstar hosts Cricfest, a multimedia cricket event to promote a smartphone app for watching cricket matches from India.
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  • San Jose, California | 2018<br />
Senior Will Murphy plays the role of Ravana, the ten-headed Demon King and villain, in Mount Madonna School’s annual production of Ramayana!, a musical adaptation of the Indian epic.
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  • Sacramento, California: Dance troupe Majajana gets ready back stage before performing during halftime for Sikh Appreciation Night at the Sacramento Kings game, as part of the NBA franchise's outreach to its local community and the global Indian diaspora.
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  • Middletown, New Jersey | 2011<br />
Justin Haggan and Hema Ramaswamy, students in the special education program at Middletown High School South, meet at Hema’s house to get ready for their senior prom.
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  • Pleasanton, California | 2015<br />
Kids participate in a Ram Lila show—a children’s pageant telling stories from the Ramayana—as part of the Diwali celebrations at the Alameda County Fairground.
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  • Yuba City, California | 2104<br />
Karm Bains is a fourth-generation California farmer, who grows peaches, prunes, walnuts, and almonds. His father, Didar Singh Bains, worked on California farms as a day laborer, saving most of his meager wages and buying land on his way to becoming one of the biggest peach growers in the nation. Sikhs from Punjab first arrived in the early 20th century to work on railroads, sawmills, and in agriculture in Canada. Many settled farther south in California, working first as laborers and then buying and developing land. Today the northern Central Valley is home to a Sikh community that has expanded beyond agriculture and into other forms of business, politics, philanthropy, and the arts.
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  • Chennai, India | 2015<br />
Hema Ramaswamy practices Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance form, with her aunt, who is a dance instructor. A few months earlier, Hema had given a public dance recital, called an arangetram, to a large audience in New Jersey. Preparing for an arangetram requires years of formal training and often serves as a rite of passage for young South Indian women. Born in New Jersey to a family with roots in Chennai, Hema is believed to be the first Indian American woman with Down syndrome to complete an arangetram.
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  • Southall, United Kingdom | 2010<br />
Workers scrape turmeric- and spice-infused batter into a tub before it is deep fried and turned into pakoras, the spicy snack, and distributed for sale throughout the UK.
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  • Hayes, United Kingdom | 2010<br />
Having spent part of his childhood in foster homes in West London, Aryian Singh served two prison terms as a juvenile for kidnapping and armed robbery. After his release, he worked as a chauffeur in London and now is a writer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur.
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  • Houston, Texas | 2014<br />
Hema Ramaswamy (center) attends the celebration of her niece Rukmini’s (far right) first birthday—a princess-themed tea party with four generations of family from Texas, New Jersey, and India.
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  • Watsonville, California | 2016 <br />
Mount Madonna Center, a yoga center and spiritual retreat founded by Hari Dass, a silent monk who came to the US from India in the early 1970s, celebrates the Hindu festival of Navratri with the ritual destruction of a 12-meter Ravana, the villain of the Ramayana.
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  • Brooklyn, New York | 2008<br />
Ranjit Arapurakal performs with the band Suspicious Brown.
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  • Vancouver, Canada: Men admire the newly installed memorial to the Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs from Punjab who sailed from Hong Kong to Canada in 1914 and were not allowed to land. The vessel waited in the harbor for two months while conditions aboard detoriated before being forced out to sea by the British navy. In the end, only 20 passengers were admitted to Canada, since the ship had violated the exclusion laws, designed to limit immigration from Asia.
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  • Middletown, New Jersey | 2011<br />
Justin Haggan and Hema Ramaswamy, students in the special education program at Middletown High School South, enjoy a dance after they were crowned prom king and queen after a vote of the entire senior class.
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  • San Jose, California | 2017<br />
Half in costume, students from Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, California, rehearse for a scene from Ramayana!, a musical adaptation of the Indian epic. Here Sugriva (in Che Guevara t-shirt) prepares to marshal his army of monkeys and bears to help the hero Ram fight for the return of his wife Sita, who has been captured by the Demon King Ravana.
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  • Bimla Wati, wife of Sanju Prasad of Gang Number 12, cooks breakfast over a wood fire in her kitchen.
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  • Cane Cutters
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  • Labasa, Fiji
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  • Sydney Harbor, Australia: Aboard the ferry to Manly Beach.
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