Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kodikamam, Sri Lanka

Children dance karakattam, an ancient folk dance traditionally performed with water pots balanced on the head, during a festival at a temple in Kodikamam, Sri Lanka.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Bardiya District, Nepal

Mamta Chaudhary takes goats to graze at her family’s farm in Nepal’s Bardiya District. The family sells goats for their livelihood.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Manjula Swarnapali, a portrait artist, uses a cellphone photo as a reference for his latest work in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Swarnapali lives in Kandy, a city in central Sri Lanka, but travels around the country to practice and sell his art.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Bardiya District, Nepal

Sunita Chaudhary, 80, is helped onto a bicycle by her husband Prabhu Chaudhary, 82, as they head to a hospital checkup for her in Nepal’s Bardiya District. Since there are no bus lines running from their village to the hospital, biking is the couple’s best option.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kodikamam, Sri Lanka

Musicians play the melam, a percussion instrument, and the nadaswaram, a wind instrument, during a festival in Kodikamam, a town in northern Sri Lanka.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Adampan, Mannar, Sri Lanka

Karuppaiya Suthakaran (from left), Velayutham Nathan and Varnasooriya Casoon mix cement to use as the foundation of a new home in Adampan, Mannar, Sri Lanka.

Photo by Vetrichelvi Chandrakala

Surkhet District, Nepal

Manikala Buda (pink shirt) and her children Shiva Buda, 3, and Pabitra Buda, 6, receive treatment from Kastura Buda, a traditional healer, in Matela, a village development committee in Nepal’s Surkhet District. People often go to faith healers, known as Dhami in Nepali, when they believe they are suffering from negative energy, an ailment which can’t be cured by other forms of medicine.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Belwabajja, Bardiya District, Nepal

Radha Chaudhary and Pyeari Chaudhary clean the floor of their home in Belwabajja, a community in Nepal’s Bardiya District, with a mixture of mud and cow dung. It is believed to purify the home, in addition to killing bacteria and repelling mosquitoes.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

New Delhi, India

Mohammad Azad designs and stitches traditional lehengas, or long embroidered skirts usually worn at weddings, at his shop in New Delhi, India. Azad makes two to three lehengas per day, which he sells to local shopkeepers. He earns about 800 Indian rupees ($11.49 USD) a day during peak marriage season.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Surkhet District, Nepal

Ghasari B.k, 55 (red shirt), stands with her husband Balaram B.k, 61, and their five-year-old grandson Binod B.k in front of their home in Girighat, an area in Nepal’s Surket District. Flooding in 2015 brought many people to temporary camps in the area.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Old Delhi, India

Gulzar Zahid (front) sells flowers and flower garlands with his employee Karam Veer at Genda Phool Market, located near the Fatehpuri Mosque in Old Delhi, India. Zahid and his family sell about 4-5 kilos (9-11 pounds) of flowers each day, often to Muslim devotees who use them as offerings to saints buried in nearby shrines.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Surkhet District, Nepal

Sonam B.k, 8 (left to right), Kamala B.k, 7, Uma B.k, 8, Kalpana Nepali, 5, Naresh B.k, 6, Kamal Nepali, 7, and Bimal Darlami, 6, play a game called gotta together in Girighat, an area in Surkhet District, Nepal. The children live in a temporary camp for people who were displaced by flooding in 2015.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kathmandu, Nepal

Kashi Shah cleans and cuts a rohu fish from the Koshi River for customers at his shop in Dhumbarai, a neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal. Shah says his customers prefer this local fish, in addition to carp and jalkapur. He purchases them from a nearby vegetable market.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Amir Buddhacharya, a Buddhist priest, hands devotees blessed flowers while they pray to Buddha during a Buddha Jayanti celebration in Kathmandu, Nepal. Buddhists consider Buddha Jayanti an auspicious day, since it marks the birth of Buddha. To celebrate, devotees often visit shrines, make offerings of flowers and money and light butter lamps.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Delhi, India

University student Areeba Khan (yellow mask) cheers on Asad, 11, while her fellow student Namra Fatima (pink mask) cheers on Shabana, 13, in the Shram Vihar informal colony in Delhi, India. The activities are organized by Aaghaaz-e-Taleem, a children’s education initiative. Many children in the neighborhood have parents who are employed as domestic workers or daily wage laborers and are either unable to afford schooling for their children or send them to nearby government schools.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Bardiya District, Nepal

People from the village development committee of Baniyabhar in Nepal’s Bardiya District clear trees and grass in the Kalika Forestto shorten the walking distance to the nearby Magadagadi village. Twelve years ago, the villagers created the Kalika Forest Consumer Committee to help systemize the use of the forest and divide its resources equally.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Johnson Arun, 15, plays football with other neighborhood children near the beach in Gurunagar, a village in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The children, who live in a residential area nearby, play football here every evening after school has ended for the day.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Old Delhi, India

Ramesh Chand makes paan, a betel leaf combined with areca nut popular for its stimulant and psychoactive effects, at his market shop on Salma Paan Corner of Chandni Chowk in old Delhi, India. Chand learned how to make paan from his grandfather. He sells a sweet variety for 20 Indian rupees (29 cents) and a plain variety for 10 rupees (14 cents).

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Kathmandu, Nepal

Guman Singh makes bamboo frames with jute ropes on the reconstruction site of Kasthamandap Temple in Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal. Kasthamandap Temple was made of wood and was completely destroyed by the April 2015 earthquake. Reconstruction work began in May 2018.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Surkhet District, Nepal

Ram Magar, 3 (left to right), Arkit Sharma, 4, Rohan Puri, 5, and Krishna Thapa, 3, swim in the Bheri River in Nepal’s Surkhet District. Nearly 264 kilometers (164 miles) long, the river is one of the largest in Nepal. Local people can commonly be found swimming, bathing and washing clothes here.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Thapathali, Nepal

Thuli Tamang, 80, washes dishes and tends to her small vegetable garden outside her home on the bank of the Bagmati River in Thapathali, Nepal. Tamang and her daughter moved to the area after her husband died. The community is made up of people squatting on government land, most of whom don’t have their own lands and have come from other parts of Nepal to find daily wage work.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Adampan, Mannar, Sri Lanka

On the main road of Adampan in Mannar, Sri Lanka, Stanistan Stanislas (left to right), Sahayanathan Anojan and Uthayakumar Vimal weigh paddy and load it onto a lorry to take to a rice mill. Farmers harvest their crops twice a year during the monsoon seasons. The period from May to September is known as Yala, and the period from December to March is called Maha.

Photo by Vetrichelvi Chandrakala

Thakurpur, Nepal

After school, children in Thakurpur village, Nepal, play on a bent tree. The children used the tree like a seesaw.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Surkhet District, Nepal

Ram Kumari Kahdka (left), 75, gets a free eye exam from optometrist Dipendra Shane during an eye care camp for senior citizens at the Surkhet Eye Hospital in Birendranagar, Nepal. The event, sponsored by and conducted in the city’s Ward No. 6, gave free eye exams to 120 local senior citizens.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

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