Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Mannar, Sri Lanka

John Anthonipillai sells fresh fish on the side of Mannar Bridge, which connects Mannar Island to the main island of Sri Lanka. Every evening for the last three years, Anthonipillai has sold fish to travelers on the bridge to Mannar Island, which has a thriving marine industry.

Photo by Vetrichelvi Chandrakala

Kathmandu, Nepal

Gopinath Dhungana puts tika on the forehead of Manisha Waiba during Janai Purnima, a Hindu festival in Bagbazar, a neighborhood of Kathmandu, Nepal. Tika, made from red powder mixed with water and rice, is applied during puja, or Hindu worship. During Janai Purnima, worshippers also receive janai, a sacred thread worn around the wrist.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Budhanilkantha, Nepal

Ram Chandra Neupane catches rainbow trout from the holding tank at Rainbow Trout restaurant in Budhanilkantha, Nepal. The restaurant sells 20 to 22 kilograms (44 to 48.5 pounds) of rainbow trout on Saturdays and 2 to 7 kilograms (4 to 15 pounds) on weekdays.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Thirunelvely, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

Every day for the past 35 years, Thangarasa Lingarasa (right), Thampu Thevarasa (center) and Rasaiah Pathmanathan (left) have gotten together to roll tobacco in Thirunelvely, a village in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna district. They make about 2,200 cigars per week, earning 1.80 Sri Lankan rupees (a little more than 1 U.S. cent) per cigar, so each man earns about 4,000 rupees (about $25) per week.

Photo by Poongulaly Balagobalan

Kathmandu, Nepal

Laxmi Maya Prajapati works on the reconstruction of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal. Reconstruction of the temple, which was built in the 17th century and destroyed in the April 2015 earthquake, began last month.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kathmandu, Nepal

During the Nag Panchami festival on Aug. 16, Hindu devotees visit a temple in Nagpokhari, a neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal, to do puja, a religious ceremony in which they offer milk, money and flowers to Hindu snake deities.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Ram Bahadur Shrestha (right), 53, rides between New Road and Thamel in Kathmandu, Nepal, seeking passengers for his rickshaw. Shrestha, who has been a rickshaw driver for 22 years, makes about 1,000 to 1,500 Nepalese rupees ($9 to $13) per day.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Cheddikulam, Sri Lanka

Tamil Hindus gather at Vavvala Lake in the Sri Lankan village of Cheddikulam for the annual Aadi Amavasai, or the new moon for the Tamil month Aadi, which occurs in July and August. To pray for the souls of their departed fathers, the group observes several rituals on the occasion.

Photo by Thayalini Indrakularasa

Mannar, Sri Lanka

Sivakumar Sarusan, 18, carries heated tar to repair Sornapury-Adampan road, in Sri Lanka’s Mannar district. At 6 a.m., Sarusan and the road repair team begin by heating the barrels of tar. They then fill in damaged parts of the road with crushed limestone, over which they pour the tar and sand.

Photo by Vetrichelvi Chandrakala

Kathmandu, Nepal

Ayesha Rana takes a picture with her phone of the “mehendi,” or henna, being applied to her hand by Santosh Kumar on New Road in Kathmandu, Nepal. Mehendi artists such as Kumar, who charge 100 Nepalese rupees (90 cents) for a simple design, are a common sight on the busy New Road during the Nepali month of Shrawan, which began on July 17. Married women get mehendi to ensure the long lives of their husbands, and unmarried women do it to get a good husband in the future.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Chabahil, Nepal

Mamata Khushbadia makes “silauto,” or traditional grinding utensils, on the streets of Chabahil, a town in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. Silauto, which are made of stone, are used to grind spices and to make tomato pickles. It can take up to three days for Khushbadia to make one silauto, depending on its size.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Banepa, Nepal

Vehicles dodge abandoned bulls resting in the middle of the Araniko Highway in Banepa, Nepal. Families sometimes abandon bull calves because they will never produce milk as cows do and thus have less value. The male animals are left to wander the streets.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Sita Yadav, 3, plays with pigeons near Basantapur Durbar Square, a World Heritage site in Kathmandu, Nepal. Tourists and other visitors at the temples there often bring food for the pigeons, and children enjoy feeding, playing with or trying to catch the birds.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Tourists and visitors to the Nishat Garden in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, enjoy its fountains. Domestic and international tourists flock to the garden on the banks of Dal Lake during spring and summer, when the plants are in bloom and the trees are green.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Kathmandu, Nepal

At Swayambhunath, a Buddhist religious complex in Kathmandu, Nepal, a video is shot of a traditional Tamang Selo dance and a song called “When I See My Love” (“Maya Lai Dekhe”). The Tamang people practice Buddhism, and many of their songs are influenced by Buddhist hymns.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Koteshwor, Nepal

Sunita Khadka (right) buys vegetables from Dhan Kumari Thapa, who uses a motorcycle to sell her produce in Koteshwor, a city in Kathmandu District, Nepal. Vendors use parked motorcycles next to this busy footpath to sell their vegetables before the monsoon season, which comes between June and August.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kathmandu, Nepal

At a stupa, or shrine, called the Monkey Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, this simian grasps a juice carton. The stupa is part of the Swayambhunath complex, atop a hill. The many monkeys that make the shrine their home sometimes steal food from tourists and Buddhist pilgrims.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Members of the Shri Krishna Pranami religious community read the “Shri Tartam Sagar,” a holy book about Krishna, a supreme Hindu god, during a gathering in Gothatar, a village in Kathmandu, Nepal. The god’s devotees believe that reading the book will bring them happiness and peace.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kathmandu, Nepal

Jigme Tsechos (foreground) is one of the 60 nuns from the White Monastery (Seto Gompa), of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, who clean the Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. These nuns, who also clean other stupas and temples around Kathmandu to help keep the environment healthy, work on this stupa every Saturday.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Banepa, Nepal

Children from the community of Banepa, Nepal, help fold a cloth to prepare a chariot for Chandeshwori Jatra, one of the largest festivals in the Kavrepalanchowk district. The chariot carried an image of the Hindu goddess Chandeshwori during the two-day festival, which is held annually during a full moon. The event marked the Buddha Jayanti, or Buddha’s birthday, on April 30.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Bhaktapur, Nepal

Children in Bhaktapur, a city in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, play on an unfinished chariot that will house an idol of a Hindu god for Bisket Jatra, a local festival. Throughout the nine-day festival, which began on Tuesday, April 10, multiple chariots holding Hindu idols will be pulled around Bhaktapur, and many people will look on and pay their respects.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Sanga, Nepal

In Sanga, a municipality in Kavre, Nepal, Deep Rai flattens sheets of “pau,” a tangy candy made with sugar, chili and a fruit called lapsi, which is found only in Nepal. Lapsi is an ingredient in various sweets.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Tourists and locals stroll among flowering almond trees in the historic Badamwari Garden in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, on March 20. The trees have begun to bloom with the arrival of spring.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Bhula Ghau, Nepal

In what is known as a Kalash Yatra procession, girls walked shoeless around their village, Bhula Ghau, for three hours on Feb. 13 to celebrate Mahashivaratri, a Hindu festival honoring Lord Shiva. The procession began at Ishwari Ganga Dham, a temple in Nepal’s Baitadi District. Each girl carried a “kalash,” a sacred copper pot filled with water, and bilva leaves from a native fruit tree, because it is believed to make Lord Shiva happy, so that he will fulfill their wishes.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

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