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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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  • New Delhi, India: Workers dismantle the seating and scaffolding arrangements made for the crowds celebrating India's Republic Day and a visit from US President Barack Obama.
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  • Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: Sailors reposition their dhows along the corniche
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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: 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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  • 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: 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Men fashion a basket from lumber scraps in Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Ordinary earthquake debris, including lumber and bricks, is salvaged for reuse, while materials from historical sites are catalogued with an eye toward reconstruction.
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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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  • Men search for crawfish in the Bagmati river. Sacred to Buddhists and Hindus, the river flows among Kathmandu’s temples, bathing areas, and cremation platforms.
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