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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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  • 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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  • Easter kite flying along the seawall. Georgetown, Guyana
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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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  • Easter kite flying along the seawall. Georgetown, Guyana.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Lincroft, New Jersey, 9/20/14: Musicians and family members bless Hema Ramaswamy before her arangetram performance.
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  • Lincroft, New Jersey, 9/20/14: Musicians and family members bless Hema Ramaswamy before her arangetram performance.
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  • Pearland, Texas: With the family gathered on stage for her father's 60th birthday function, Hema Ramaswamy receives a greeting from India via Skype on May 10, 2014.
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  • Middletown, New Jersey: With parents and grandmother, Hema Ramaswamy receives congratulations from family in India via Skype, as she waits for her date to take her to her senior prom on June 3, 2011.
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  • Houston, Texas: 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 Chennai, India, on May 24, 2014.
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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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  • Ojochal, Costa Rica: Surrounded by friends and family, filmmaker Sharat Raju and filmmaker, lawyer, and community activist Valarie Kaur are bathed in turmeric paste as part of their wedding rituals near her parents home in Costa Rica. They live in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Writer and filmmaker Aryian Singh with members of his family at Runnymede, near Windsor Castle
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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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  • Baikuntha Manandhar (center), four-time Olympian and gold medalist in the South Asian Games, prepares for the Marathon for Peace to raise awareness for women’s and children’s justice and to show that Nepal is safe for tourists. According to UNICEF, human traffickers targeted desperately poor families to give up their children after the earthquake. Manandhar and a group of runners began at Bhaktapur Durbar Square, among the damaged temples, and continued to Kathmandu and Patan.
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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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  • Houston, Texas: Hema Ramaswamy with sister Uma Shankar, parents Gayathri and Ramesh Ramaswamy, and sister Geetha Radhakrishnan, May 24, 2014. Hema and her parents live in Middletown, New Jersey. Uma and Geetha live in Houston with their families.
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