June 2021: A farmer poses for a picture as he takes break from ploughing the field during Nepal’s rice planting festival
August 2021: Two ‘sadhus’ from India photographed at Nepal’s Gosainkunda lake during the annual shaman festival
August 2021, Gosainkunda, Nepal: A shaman on her way to Trishul Dhara to perform rituals during the yearly shaman festival
September 2021, Kathmandu: A woman sitting by the Swet Bhairab statue that has been opened for worship during the Indra Jatra festival
August 2021, Nepal: A shaman poses for a picture by the Gosainkunda lake during Nepal’s annual shaman festival
August 2021, Nepal: A shaman performing rituals using a decorated metal jug filled with water flowing from Trishul Dhara
September 2021, Kathmandu, Nepal: Girls selling balloons inside Durbar Square complex during Indra Jatra celebrations
August 2021, Gosainkunda, Nepal: A Hindu priest poses for a picture by the Gosainkunda lake during his daily morning ritual
December 2021, Ahmedabad: A man barely avoids running into a woman carrying heavy weight over her head
October 2020, Pokhara: People in a busy street walk past an elderly woman who has fallen asleep on the sidewalk
A crowd of devotees during the daily gum benzoin or frankincense burning ritual. Burning gum benzoin is a common daily or ceremonial practice in Indian households, temples, and shrines.
December 2021, Ahmedabad: A man applies sandalwood paste on his forehead at a Jain temple aka ‘derasar’
March 2021, Ahmedabad: A man buying chickens at Sunday market where different breeds of chickens are available for sale at highly varying prices
November 2020, Pokhara: A young girl posing for a picture in her festive clothes ahead of Tihar festival
August 2019, Pokhara, Nepal: Laxmi, a young girl working with her mother in an open field, takes a break to be photographed
January 2022: An untrained tattoo maker prepares to make tattoo of a religious deity displayed on a phone
July 2021, Pokhara, Nepal: Broken signboad of a restaurant that was closed during the Covid-19 pandemic