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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Photo of Suzanne Lee, a Malaysian documentary photographer based in India. Photo by Asim Rafiqui.
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Portrait of Suzanne Lee, a documentary photographer born in Malaysia, based in India. Photo by Sanjit Das
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  • Graduating female drivers sit for a theory test in Azad Foundation.<br />
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Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • A staff lights evening candles in a bar on the roof top of a hotel on the Marine Drive, also known as The Queen's Necklace, Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The road from Leh to Tso Moriri is accompanied for most of the journey by the Indus River, until after Mahe, which then turns into sandy plains of the wild life reserve area where Tso Moriri is. The lake is surrounded by the elevated valley of Rupshu with hills rising to 6,000m, and on its western bank sits the village of Korzok, established over 300 years ago..Tso Moriri is a High Altitude Lake (HAL) with an altitude of 4,595m and is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Scenery around Leh, Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Hemis Monastery of the Drukpa lineage, dating back to the year 1630, holds the distinction of being the biggest as well as the wealthiest monastery of Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Shuki and students training; and generic shots of Bangkok...Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Shuki Rosenweig brings five fighters to fight in Phigit, a town 3 hours north of Bangkok, on 1st February 2010. Lital, Ilya, Gil and two other fighters, one from France and another from Brazil..Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Jewish travellers and residents of the popular Thai tourist island of Koh Samui pray in the Chabad House of Koh Samui with Rabbi Goldshmid (center) during Chanuka celebrations on 17th December 2009. Koh Samui is the smaller of 2 islands next to each other, world renowned for the monthly full moon rave parties on the beach..Photo by Suzanne Lee / For Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Rabbi Goldshmid brings donuts and tefillin to a hospital in Koh Samui, to visit Erez Levanon, the owner of a spa (with partner Dali, photographed in spa), who has been in the hospital for 5 days. Photo by Suzanne Lee / For Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Scenes of Bangkok city, Thailand on 14th December 2009..Photo by Suzanne Lee / For Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Mozel Moses Pugawkar's husband, Moses Ezekiel Pugawkar (aged 44) gives Yeshiva Shalom Prus (USA) a tour of the fire brigade before putting tefillin, something he hasn't done since he was 13 years old.  He is a fireman and has been awarded numerous times for his bravery and involvement in the duties during the 26/11 terrorist attacks on the Taj Hotel, Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Chabad Mumbai's Yeshivas read the megillah at the Keneseth Eliyahoo synagogue in Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Street shots of north India. Photo by Suzanne Lee The famous Kabab stall, Tunday Kababi, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,
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  • Street shots of north India. Photo by Suzanne Lee Night street scenes, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Wedding Bands,
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  • Street shots of north India. Photo by Suzanne Lee Night street scenes, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Wedding Bands,
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  • Street shots of north India. Photo by Suzanne Lee Darjeeling Hill, West Bengal,
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  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
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  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
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  • From the drier, the tea is moved into a room where ladies, again selected for their meticulous nature, sit on the floor, sorting through the leaves by hand. They discard stray stems and twigs, and hand pick the undamaged leaves to be packed as the Muscatel Second Flush as the broken leaves are put aside for tea-bagging.
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  • From the drier, the tea is moved into a room where ladies, again selected for their meticulous nature, sit on the floor, sorting through the leaves by hand. They discard stray stems and twigs, and hand pick the undamaged leaves to be packed as the Muscatel Second Flush as the broken leaves are put aside for tea-bagging.
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  • From the drier, the tea is moved into a room where ladies, again selected for their meticulous nature, sit on the floor, sorting through the leaves by hand. They discard stray stems and twigs, and hand pick the undamaged leaves to be packed as the Muscatel Second Flush as the broken leaves are put aside for tea-bagging.
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  • Rolling imparts leaf style and catalyses fermentation. Great care is given in rolling the leaves so as to ensure high percentages of the leaf grade, and not to damage the delicate leaves. Whole leaf teas fetch the higher prices as opposed to broken leaf teas, which are normally used in tea bags.
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  • After plucking, the leaves are withered in a hall in the orthodox way by exposing freshly plucked leaves to an air stream, which eliminates the excess moisture inherent in the leaf. Seventy percent of the moisture is removed here. After fourteen hours of withering, the fermented leaves are then fed into a rolling machine.
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  • At the crack of dawn, workers are seen plucking tea by hand. The plucking workers are mostly ladies, as they are known to be more accurate and precise when plucking high-grade tea. High-grade tea is plucked at a certain length with only two or three of the youngest leaves and it is kept undamaged.
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  • At the crack of dawn, workers are seen plucking tea by hand. The plucking workers are mostly ladies, as they are known to be more accurate and precise when plucking high-grade tea. High-grade tea is plucked at a certain length with only two or three of the youngest leaves and it is kept undamaged.
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  • An overview of the lake and town center in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India. Every year in November thousands of Rajasthani tribal people converge in the picturesque town of Pushkar, which is also a major site for Hindu pilgrims. They come to buy and sell camels (over 50,000) and other cattle and bathe at the Pushkar lake (considered sacred by Hindus). They come for the entertaining camel races and local circuses, and to browse the local markets for camel saddles, textiles, glass bangles and silver jewelry..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • India's modern youth hang out in a pub in New Delhi, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The road from Leh to Tso Moriri is accompanied for most of the journey by the Indus River, until after Mahe, which then turns into sandy plains of the wild life reserve area where Tso Moriri is. The lake is surrounded by the elevated valley of Rupshu with hills rising to 6,000m, and on its western bank sits the village of Korzok, established over 300 years ago..Tso Moriri is a High Altitude Lake (HAL) with an altitude of 4,595m and is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The road from Leh to Tso Moriri is accompanied for most of the journey by the Indus River, until after Mahe, which then turns into sandy plains of the wild life reserve area where Tso Moriri is. The lake is surrounded by the elevated valley of Rupshu with hills rising to 6,000m, and on its western bank sits the village of Korzok, established over 300 years ago..Tso Moriri is a High Altitude Lake (HAL) with an altitude of 4,595m and is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Khardung La (5359m) is a High Mountain Pass in Ladakh. It is also allegedly the World's Highest Motorable Road. The 5,359 m elevation given above is from a modern GPS survey by a team of researchers and there are allegations that the 5,602m height claimed by the summit signs are grossly incorrect..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Stok Gompa. Stok (3364m) is the current residence of the former royal family of Ladakh.*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Stok Gompa. Stok (3364m) is the current residence of the former royal family of Ladakh.*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Travel photos of the sceneries in and around Kashmir, Dal Lake, and its Vegetable Boat Market. .*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Shuki and students training; and generic shots of Bangkok...Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • From the drier, the tea is moved into a room where ladies, again selected for their meticulous nature, sit on the floor, sorting through the leaves by hand. They discard stray stems and twigs, and hand pick the undamaged leaves to be packed as the Muscatel Second Flush as the broken leaves are put aside for tea-bagging.
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  • After rolling, the tea is fired in a drier, which is a large machine that is heated by a coal fire. This stops the fermentation process and dries the tea completely.
    SLee20090312-Darjeeling-Makaibari-10...JPG
  • Rolling imparts leaf style and catalyses fermentation. Great care is given in rolling the leaves so as to ensure high percentages of the leaf grade, and not to damage the delicate leaves. Whole leaf teas fetch the higher prices as opposed to broken leaf teas, which are normally used in tea bags.
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  • The yeshivas pray amongst Indian Jews in the Tiphaereth Israel synagogue in Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • A tourist looks at Shiva Lingam in the Elephanta Caves, a Hindu place of worship for the Lord Shiva, accessible by a long ferry ride in the Arabian sea, Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The road from Leh to Tso Moriri is accompanied for most of the journey by the Indus River, until after Mahe, which then turns into sandy plains of the wild life reserve area where Tso Moriri is. The lake is surrounded by the elevated valley of Rupshu with hills rising to 6,000m, and on its western bank sits the village of Korzok, established over 300 years ago..Tso Moriri is a High Altitude Lake (HAL) with an altitude of 4,595m and is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee.
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  • Hemis Monastery of the Drukpa lineage, dating back to the year 1630, holds the distinction of being the biggest as well as the wealthiest monastery of Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Near to the town of Mulbekh along the Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D, is the famous Chamba Statue, a striking enormous figure carved into the rock face. It pictures a standing Maitreya Buddha or 'Buddha-to-come' carved in the 1st century...*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Travel photos of the sceneries in and around Kashmir, Dal Lake, and its Vegetable Boat Market. .*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Travel photos of the sceneries in and around Kashmir, Dal Lake, and its Vegetable Boat Market. .*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Photos of the Drukpa Lineage Head Lama of Hemis and Ladakh on the Pad Yatra, arriving in Shyang for the final night of camping on 30th June 2009 before concluding the one and a half month long trek to Hemis from Manali. The trek was joined by over 600 people including nuns, monks, foreigners and other buddhist followers..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Shuki (L) talks to Lital (R) during a break in the corner. Lital fights Muay Thai with a Thai opponent in Phigit, winning the fight by points..(please refer to emailed captions for individual stories)..Shuki Rosenweig brings five fighters to fight in Phigit, a town 3 hours north of Bangkok, on 1st February 2010. Lital, Ilya, Gil and two other fighters, one from France and another from Brazil..Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • From the drier, the tea is moved into a room where ladies, again selected for their meticulous nature, sit on the floor, sorting through the leaves by hand. They discard stray stems and twigs, and hand pick the undamaged leaves to be packed as the Muscatel Second Flush as the broken leaves are put aside for tea-bagging.
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  • After rolling, the tea is fired in a drier, which is a large machine that is heated by a coal fire. This stops the fermentation process and dries the tea completely.
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  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee's sprawling tea estate, Makaibari, in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India. Rajah is the fourth generation owner of this estate, established in the 1840s. Makaibari produces some of the most expensive teas in the world and its' patented Silver Tips Imperial is the current record holder (2009) of the most expensive tea ever auctioned at USD400 per kg.
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  • Desert village women and girls fetching water in the Thar desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. The Thar desert borders Pakistan and the Sam Sand Dunes is a popular tourist attraction..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Meenu Vadera poses for a portrait on 30th March 2010 in Azad Foundation.<br />
Currently training their 4th batch of students, Azad Foundation was set up by Meenu Vadera (Executive Director) in New Delhi, India, to train Indian women in driving services. Upon completion, these women work as personal drivers for a period of time before they upgrade their driving licences to commercial licences, allowing them to drive taxis. With this program, Azad aims to empower Indian women including those previously abused or trafficked, while making Delhi a safer place for women travelling in public transport. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • Indian tourists praying to Shiva Lingam in the Elephanta Caves, a Hindu place of worship for the Lord Shiva, accessible by a long ferry ride in the Arabian sea, Mumbai, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
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Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The road from Leh to Tso Moriri is accompanied for most of the journey by the Indus River, until after Mahe, which then turns into sandy plains of the wild life reserve area where Tso Moriri is. The lake is surrounded by the elevated valley of Rupshu with hills rising to 6,000m, and on its western bank sits the village of Korzok, established over 300 years ago..Tso Moriri is a High Altitude Lake (HAL) with an altitude of 4,595m and is the largest of the High Altitude Lakes in the Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region, entirely within India..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Khardung La (5359m) is a High Mountain Pass in Ladakh. It is also allegedly the World's Highest Motorable Road. The 5,359 m elevation given above is from a modern GPS survey by a team of researchers and there are allegations that the 5,602m height claimed by the summit signs are grossly incorrect..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Scenery around Leh, Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Scenery around Leh, Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Hemis Monastery of the Drukpa lineage, dating back to the year 1630, holds the distinction of being the biggest as well as the wealthiest monastery of Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Hemis Monastery of the Drukpa lineage, dating back to the year 1630, holds the distinction of being the biggest as well as the wealthiest monastery of Ladakh..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • The Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D (NH 1D) runs through extremely treacherous terrain and follows the historic trade route along the Indus River,.passes through Zoji La at 3528m, Fotu La at 4108m, and Drass (3230m) which is the coldest inhabited place in India with temperatures dropping to -45C during winter..*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Near to the town of Mulbekh along the Srinagar-Leh Highway, a.k.a. National Highway 1D, is the famous Chamba Statue, a striking enormous figure carved into the rock face. It pictures a standing Maitreya Buddha or 'Buddha-to-come' carved in the 1st century...*Pre-season Jeep road trip from Delhi to Amritsar, Srinagar, Kargil, Lamayuru, Leh, Khardung La, Tso Moriri and back to Delhi in May 2010. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Shuki (L) ties Lital's (R) Boxing gloves just before her Muay Thai fight in Phigit..(please refer to emailed captions for individual stories)..Shuki Rosenweig brings five fighters to fight in Phigit, a town 3 hours north of Bangkok, on 1st February 2010. Lital, Ilya, Gil and two other fighters, one from France and another from Brazil..Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Lital Zastlin takes a brisk walk to a lake park where she runs over 8 km as part of her morning routine of the daily training..(please refer to emailed captions for individual stories).Shuki Rosenweig and Students in training and daily life in Bangkok Thailand on 31st January 2010. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Jonathan Isaac Newman (in red t-shirt) dances in Gulliver's, a discotheque club in Khao San, Bangkok after Chanuka celebrations at Chabad Bangkok (Khao San), Thailand on 12th December 2009. Also known in Khao San clubs as 'Santa Claus', he has just moved into a rented apartment this week and lives alone..Jon, an Irish/American, is a jeweller by profession, owns a video game manufacturing company in the USA, and used to work for the FBI. His brother is a rabbi. Jon has 4 children with his ex-wife, an Israeli. He speaks 7 languages and has recently decided to live to Bangkok. People often mistake Jon for a rabbi in Chabad Khao San because he wears a black coat and hat. However, soon after prayers, Jon changes into t-shirt and jeans, carrying his prayer clothes in a bag with him as he walks home..Photo by Suzanne Lee / For Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Rabbi Goldshmid brings donuts and tefillin to a hospital in Koh Samui, to visit Erez Levanon, the owner of a spa (with partner Dali, photographed in spa), who has been in the hospital for 5 days. Photo by Suzanne Lee / For Chabad Lubavitch
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  • Street shots of north India. Photo by Suzanne Lee Darjeeling Hill, West Bengal,
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  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
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  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
    SLee20090312-Darjeeling-Makaibari-12...JPG
  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
    SLee20090312-Darjeeling-Makaibari-12...JPG
  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
    SLee20090312-Darjeeling-Makaibari-12...JPG
  • Rajah Swaraj Banerjee tastes each batch of tea produced in Makaibari. Tea tasting is strikingly similar to what one would imagine of a teetotaler's wine tasting. Rajah and his experts taste every batch of tea as a quality control measure. Just by tasting the finished tea, which must be correctly brewed, connoisseurs can tell exactly where the error occurred in the processing stages of a faulty tea.<br />
Flavors of different types of tea are influenced by time and style of picking as well as method of processing.
    SLee20090312-Darjeeling-Makaibari-11...JPG
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