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India Currents in Pictures: 2023

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January 28, 2023

Barnali Chatterjee hands flowers to a volunteer at Baybasi’s Saraswati Puja on Jan. 28, 2023 in Foster City, California. The puja honors the goddess of learning.

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    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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