Faces of India (2019)
Shepherd in Kargil
district of Ladakh.
People in Itchu,
the last village in the Phulangma valley southeast of
Kargil.
Man in Bartu,
another village, in the Phulangma valley.
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Colorful women in the bazar town of Sankoo on the road connecting Kargil
and Padum.
Man preparing momos
(dumplings) in a restaurant of Sankoo.
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A more austere-looking man in Sankoo.
Buddhist monk in Rangdum.
People in Dibling,
one of the most remote villages in Ladakh, southeast
of Rangdum.
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Women in Pigmo,
in the valley of the Zanskar river.
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Man distributing tsampa
before a puja in Pishu, another village of the valley
of the Zanskar river.
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A Buddhist monk and a woman in the
village of Agsho, northwest of Padum.
Bakarwal shepherds in valleys of the Padder region of the Kishtwar
district of Jammu & Kashmir, south of Zanskar.
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Woman and child on a hard-packed snow
patch near the hamlet of Sumcham in the Padder region.
In a house of Drangha,
another hamlet in the Padder region.
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Women at Kamakya Mandir (Hindu temple) in
Guwahati (state of Assam).
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Bikers at Se La, a 4170m mountain pass
between Dirang and Tawang
in Arunachal Pradesh.
Monks and apprentices in the Tawang Gompa (state of Arunachal
Pradesh).
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Dances at a Monpa
festival in Tawang.
Dance of the Nyapas (fishermen, with long white beards).
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Masked
characters in the Yak Dance.
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Monpa woman in her house in the village of
Chandler (state of Arunachal Pradesh).
Woman at a yak pasture, near Tse La (state of Arunachal Pradesh)
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Yakmen and yaks under the snow, near Mago (Arunachal Pradesh).
Brokpa (yak rearer)
in the mountains above Tawang.
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Monpa women in western Arunachal Pradesh.
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Pilgrims and worshippers on the banks of
the Gange river in Varanasi (state
of Uttar Pradesh) during the Chhath puja.
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People in the streets and lanes of old
Varanasi.
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