Two men in homespun clothes walking between the pools left by the first monsoon rain in Gurgaon

Rikshawallahs and workers taking a break from Amritsar’s summer heat.

 Schoolboy in the tiny Himalayan village of Leo racing to get himself and his drum in the right place.

The intent look on the young Tibetan’s face shows that he is just as much as musician as a monk, as he performs for a festival in the Dalai Lama’s palace in MacLeod Ganj.

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