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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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  • 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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  • Fremont, California | 2014<br />
Sikhs celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, at the Fremont Gurdwara.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Members of SAWCC (South Asian Women's Creative Collective) -- Roopa Singh, Minal Hajratwala, Yesha Naik, Kavitha Rajagopalan, and Anjali Goyal -- at the Bloomberg reception for the 2009 SAJA Convention
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  • The South Asian Women's Leadership Forum
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  • The South Asian Women's Leadership Forum
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  • Simi Ahuja, founder, South Asian Women's Leadership Forum (center)
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