Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Surkhet District, Nepal

Mani Ram Pokherel sits with his daughter, Pabitra Pokherel, 9, and makes a basket out of bamboo in Surkhet, Nepal. He weaves each basket by hand and sells them for 400 Nepalese rupees ($3.49 USD) apiece. The money helps pay for his daughter’s school.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Gulmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir

Tourists ski in Kongdori, a mountain recreation area in Gulmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir. Skiers take the Gulmarg Gondola to get to the top. The 1st Phase of the Gondola goes to a height of 8,350 ft, followed by the 2nd phase, which goes to 12,293 ft.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Surkhet District, Nepal

Friends Sawaney Buda (left), 75, and Sunakhari Budha, 77, sit in the sun and roll woolen, or yarn made by carding wool, outside their home in Birendranagar, a city in Nepal’s Surkhet District. The two women learned to knit woolen sweaters when they lived in the Jumla District, one of the coldest places in Nepal’s northern Karnali Province.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Sellaiah Velayutham, 72, uses traditional methods to iron clothes at his laundry in Koiyaththoddam, a village in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Velayutham has been pressing in this way since he was 16. He uses an old-style iron that is heated with coals.

Photo by Poongulaly Balagobalan

Bai Haryana, India

Waseem Khan, 16, takes his herd of buffalo for a stroll in Bai, a village in the state of Haryana, India. Every day, Khan takes the buffaloes many kilometers out in search of water and fodder.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir

Danish Amin walks home after attending a small tutoring session at a tuition center, a private tutoring institution, in Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir. “I leave for tuition at 10 and come back at 3 p.m.,” says Amin. “Sometimes we walk in the morning and see no road. It’s all snow, and we form a track.”

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Babareshi, Indian-administered Kashmir

Firdous Ahmed skis in Babareshi, a forest area of Indian-administered Kashmir. “I have been skiing since childhood and wait desperately for the snowfall season,” says Ahmed. “It’s always fun to ski from the ranges of Affarwat,” a nearby mountain peak.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Birendranagar, Nepal

Dipa Magar (right) learns professional tailoring from Mina Thapa Magar at the Laganshil Tailoring Centre in Birendranagar, a city in Nepal.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Sivam Mercy, 14, sets nets to catch shrimp at Pannai Beach in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Helping his father, Sivam sets the nets in the evening and hauls in the shrimp in the morning.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

New Delhi, India

Laborers separate pieces of fabric by color at a textile manufacturing factory in the Okhla Industrial Area in New Delhi, India’s capital. The cloth pieces are purchased as stuffing for mattresses and pillows.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Kathmandu, Nepal

Sandip Ranjitkar (right), whose family has been selling wool shawls for three generations, gets his wares ready for prospective customers in Indra Chowk, a large market square in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir

Yasir Hussain (left), 11, and Sajad Qasana, 10, take advantage of the snow in Tangmarg, Indian-administered Kashmir. Indian-administered Kashmir has seen heavy snowfall this season, with up to two feet in hilly regions so far.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Kathmandu, Nepal

A dragon is painted on Mahesh Magar, 3, during a Makar Sakranti festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Makar Sakranti marks the beginning of the Nepali month Magh, which signals the return of longer and warmer days. Mahesh says he always gets a dragon painted on his face during cultural festivals.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Siddhartha Gautam, 8, enjoys a ride called 3 in 1 at the Kathmandu Fun Parkin Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu, Nepal. Siddhartha says he likes to ride 3 in 1 at least two times whenever he visits the amusement park, because it makes him feel as if he’s flying in a real airplane.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

Rajeenthiran Jonsan, 6; Pratheepkumar Thushipriyanthanan, 6; Aswini Anton, 6; and Arsatha Aroos, 5, display their crafts to an audience of parents during an exhibition at Ath Thayba Pre-school in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. Students were taught artistic and creative ways to recycle waste materials.

Photo by Thayalini Indrakularasa

New Delhi, India

Kalabai Shyam, 45, an artist from the Gond, the largest Adivasi (tribal) community in India, paints during an exhibition at Dilli Haat, a plaza and craft bazaar in New Delhi. Her media are charcoal, colored soil, plant sap, mud, flowers, leaves and cow dung. She says she is inspired by Mother Nature to tell stories through her paintings.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Birendranagar, Nepal

Rita Thapa (left), 9, and Puja Khadka, 10, wash up at the Shree Nepal Rastriya Higher Secondary School in Birendranagar, Nepal. Many of the government schools provide purified drinking water for students to avoid common water-related diseases.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Inuvil, Sri Lanka

Karunakaran Akshayan (left), Thanaventhan Kishotharan and Rajeevan Vaishalini, all 5 years old, dress up as Hindu gods for a performance at their preschool, Ilanthondar Sabha, in Inuvil, a village in northern Sri Lanka. The children are Montessori students. The Montessori method is an approach to teaching that is activity-based and more hands-on for the students.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Birendranagar, Nepal

Isha Thapa, 2, dances to a Nepalese song during a family picnic in Birendranagar, Nepal. To help introduce her to their culture, Isha’s parents dressed her in the traditional garb of the Magar, the group to which the family belongs.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

New Delhi, India

Renu Di cuts white radishes on her job at Dastarkhwan, a canteen staffed solely by women, at Jamia Millia Islamia, a public university in New Delhi, India. The canteen is run by seven women who employ 40 others to serve 5,000 customers a day.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Jaffna, Sri Lanka

At the Arasady Pillayar Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Hindus worship by carrying “kavadi,” a type of physical burden that is often a decorated wood item. Starting at the temple, the procession danced through the village of Kondavil. The kavadi may also be a body piercing.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Kathmandu, Nepal

Mohammad Naeeim Uddin makes a necklace with glass beads called “pote” at a shop in Indra Chowk, a market in Kathmandu, Nepal. In Hindu culture, only married women wear pote, so the beads are commonly bought during the wedding season from December to February, to be used in the ceremonies.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Alaveddy, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Panchatcharam Kanagasabapathy, 70, throws fertilizer on his rice paddy in Alaveddy, a village in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka. Kanagasabapathy has planted paddy seedlings on his field for the past 25 years.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Thinesh

Kathmandu, Nepal

In front of the Annapurna Temple in Ason, a market square in Kathmandu, Nepal, Dipendra Tuladhar draws a “kalash” in an offering of grain. A kalash is a metal pot filled with water and offered to the gods. The grains thank the gods for the good harvest, as Hindus and Buddhists pray for next year’s crop.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

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