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India Currents in Pictures: 2023

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July 31, 2022

Mela attendees watch the dance performances at the San Jose Teeyan Mela at Evergreen Valley High School, July 30, 2022. The Teeyan celebrates the monsoon and is also a dance celebration for women.

    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.



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