India Currents in Pictures: 2023
Chief priest Pandit Sampath Sridharan throws sanctified water in the air on the final day of the Maha Kumbabhishekam at the Shiva-Vishnu Temple in Livermore, CA. The Maha Kumbhabhishekam, which happens once every twelve years, is a set of rituals performed over a five day period to restore and reset the energy of the temple. It can also be a chance to bring in new idols, and engage in restoration efforts.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
This project, a collaboration between India Currents and CatchLight as part of the CatchLight Local CA Visual Desk. Photographs and text by CatchLight Local Fellow Sree Sripathy. Contributors include Meera Kymal, Jenny Jacklin-Stratton and Mabel Jiménez.
CatchLight Local is a visual journalism initiative made possible thanks to the generous support of individuals, foundations, and corporations including the Emerson Collective and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Enlight Foundation, The John S and James L Knight Foundation, Kresge Foundation, and our education partner PhotoWings.
ABOUT SREE
Sree Sripathy is a writer, photographer, artist and disability advocate based in the SF Bay Area. Her work focuses on the seen and unseen and their relationship to isolation, ability/disability, immigrant identity, language and culture. Sree is the Co-Founder of the Women's Parkinson's Project, an Ambassador and YOPD Council Member for the Davis Phinney Foundation and a Board Member for Poetry Center San José.
