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Friday 23 June 2017

Genocidal Culture Busker Haircut #17: Hand Over Foot (bird shadows on the wall)

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#India Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers on the eve of the annual Ambubachi festival at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2017


#Philippines Activists shout anti martial law slogans during a protest in Manila calling for President Duterte to end the Martial Law. @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#India An Hindu woman prays as she takes part in a ritual offering during the Ambubachi festival at a temple in Agartala. Photo Arindam Dey:: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


Iraqis queue to receive food rations in an area outside Mosul's Old City during #MosulOffensive Photo Mohamed El-Shahed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


GAZA CITY - A Palestinian man sells salted fish a few days ahead of Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Ramadan. Photo @mohmdabed: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#Venezuela A demonstrator hit by a rubber bullet shot by riot police is carried away during an anti-government protest in Caracas. Photo @federicoparra: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#Iraq Iraqis flee from Mosul during the ongoing offensive by Iraqi forces to retake the last district still held by IS. photo  Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#UK A racegoer attends Ladies Day at the Royal Ascot horse racing meet in Ascot. Photo @lealolivas #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian family make traditional date-filled cookies in preparation for the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Rafah. Photo @saidkhatib.: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#Iraq Iraqis flee from the Old City of Mosul during #MosulOffensive Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


Widows in Afghanistan are often rejected as immoral or regarded as burdens: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 June 2017


Widows in Afghanistan are often rejected as immoral or regarded as burdens: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 June 2017


Widows in Afghanistan are often rejected as immoral or regarded as burdens: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 June 2017


Widows in Afghanistan are often rejected as immoral or regarded as burdens: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 23 June 2017


#Indonesia Passengers disembark from a ship at Surabaya seaport as part of Indonesia's mass exodus ahead of the Eid ul-Fitr festival. Photo @junipicture: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#India A man pushes his bicycle through a flooded street after heavy rain in Guwahati. Photo @BoroBiju #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


SYRIA - Smoke rises following a reported air strike on a rebel-held area in Daraa. Photo @AbazidMohamad #afp: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#Afghanistan A burqa-clad woman and child walk through a market ahead of Eid Al-Fitr festivities at a local market in Jalalabad. Photo @Noorulah700: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 June 2017


#Morocco A Moroccan trader waits for customers in Chefchouen, in the northern Moroccan Rif. Photo @SwiftIrving: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2017


#UK A Muslim men prays in the main room of the Dundee Central Mosque in Dundee, Scotland. Photo @acbphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, AFP, 22 June 2017


#Iraq Iraqi forces patrol a street near Mosul's Old City during #MosulOffensive. Photo Mohamed El-Shahed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2017


#Turkey A Muslim worshipper prays as she waits to break her fast outside the Eyup Sultan mosque on the occasion of Laylat al-Qadr. Photo @ozannkosee: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2017


#India Indian Hindu devotees offer prayers on the eve of the annual Ambubachi festival at the Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati. Photo @BoroBiju #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 22 June 2017

India Kashmir Voilence

Kashmiri villagers inspect a house damaged during a gun battle between Indian soldiers and suspected militants in Kakpora village about 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Government forces killed three suspected Kashmiri rebels in fighting in the disputed region Thursday and fatally shot a rock-throwing protester during an ensuing rally demanding an end to Indian rule, officials said.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 22 June 2017


Kashmiri girls cry over the death of Tawseef Wani, a civilian who was killed by security forces during clashes in Kakpora South Kashmir.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 22 June 2017


Thousands attend funeral prayers of a civilian Tawseef @ Chota Geelani killed during clashes in Pulwama District of south #Kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 22 June 2017

  
Thousands attend funeral prayers of a civilian Tawseef @ Chota Geelani killed during clashes in Pulwama District of south #Kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 22 June 2017


 A Kashmiri woman showers sweets to a militant Irshad Ahmad during his funeral procession at Awantipora in South Kashmir's Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 22 June 2017


Thousands attend the funeral prayers of two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants Majid Mir and Shakir Ahmed in Pulwama District of south #Kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 22 June 2017


For the first time in living memory #JamaMasjid locked down and people barred from offering Juma-tul-vida prayers by the authorities!: image via Mirwaiz Umar Farooq @MirwaizKashmir, 23 June 2017


Aerial view of Jamia Masjid, Srinagar: image via BASIT ZARGAR @BASIIPJ, 20 June 2017


In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates
: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 June 2017



In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 June 2017



In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 22 June 2017

Venezuela Political Crisis

Demonstrators run from advancing security forces who prevented the demonstrators from marching to the office of Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz to show support for the one-time government loyalist, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Venezuela's Supreme Court cleared the way for the prosecution of the country's chief prosecutor, who became a surprise hero to the opposition after breaking ranks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro over his efforts to concentrate power.: photo by Fernando Llano/AP, 22 June 2017

EU Libya Migrants

Sub saharan men sit on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel after being rescued from a rubber boat out of control at 32 miles north of Tripoli, Libya, on Thursday, June 22, 2017.: photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP, 22 June 2017

Saudi Ramadan

A Muslim worshipper prays during Laylat al-Qadr, Night of Decree, on the 27th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan as pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early Thursday, June 22, 2017. Laylat al-Qadr, is the night Muslims commemorate the revelation of the first verses of the Quran to their Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel.: photo by Amr Nabil/AP, 22 June 2017

Bangladesh Eid al-Fitr 
A Bangladeshi woman sits on the back of an overcrowded train as she heads home ahead of Eid al-Fitr at a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Hundreds of thousands of people working in Dhaka leave for their home towns every year to celebrate Eid al-Fitr with their family.: photo by A.M. Ahad/AP, 22 June 2017


Kashmiri students clash with Indian government forces near a college in central Srinagar's Lal Chowk on April 17, 2017. Violence erupted in Srinagar as students staged a protest after more than 60 students were injured in clashes with Indian security forces at a college in the district of Pulwama last week.: photo by Tauseef Mustafa / AFP, 17 April 2017


Kashmiri students throw stones and bricks at Indian government forces during a protest against the attack by Indian government forces on students, on April 24, 2017, in Srinagar. Violence erupted after the students of Shri Pratap Higher Secondary school marched and staged a protest in the city's commercial hub. The authorities earlier in the day had ordered all colleges and higher secondary schools open. Students protested in Srinagar after a police raid in a college in southern Pulwama town last week, in which at least 50 students were injured. The protests soon spread in the city center, leading to pitched battles between rock-throwing students and government forces using water canons, rubber bullets, and tear gas to disperse the students.: photo by Yawar Nazir / Getty, 24 April 2017


A Kashmiri woman shouts pro-freedom slogans during the funeral of Umer Farooq, a Kashmiri civilian who was killed at Baroosa village, 34 Kilometers (21 miles) northeast of Srinagar on April 10, 2017. Government forces opened fire on Sunday on crowds of people who attacked polling stations during a by-election for a vacant seat in India's Parliament, killing eight people.: photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP, 10 April 2017


An Indian police officer fires a teargas shell towards Kashmiri Muslim protesters during an anti-India protest on March 3, 2017 in Srinagar. Indian government forces used live rounds, pellets, acrid teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse scores of Kashmiri Muslim protesters who were throwing stones at Indian forces during an anti Indian protest in the Old City of Srinagar, after Friday prayers.: photo by Yawar Nazir / Getty, 3 March 2017
 

Kashmiri Muslim women gather to attend the funeral ceremony of Amir Nazir, a 15 year old who was killed by Indian government forces during clashes in a gun battle, on March 9, 2017 in Begumbagh, south of Srinagar. Two civilians including a teenager were killed in clashes with Indian government forces when they tried to save the local rebels who were engaged in a gun battle with forces the rebels were also killed in the gun battle later in the day, in the Pulwama district of south Kashmir.: photo byYawar Nazir / Getty, 9 March 2015


Indian paramilitary soldiers use a slingshot to fire glass marbles at Kashmiri protesters during a protest in Srinagar on April 21, 2017.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 21 April 2017


Kashmiri protesters throw rocks at Indian security officers during a protest on the outskirts of Srinagar on March 31, 2017. Government forces in Indian portion of Kashmir fired tear gas and pellet guns to stop protest marches called by separatist leaders against the killing of three civilians during anti-India protests near the site of a gun battle.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 31 March 2017

  
In this March 29, 2017, photo, Indian paramilitary soldiers force a Kashmiri child to perform sit-ups while holding his ear lobes, a common elementary school punishment in India, before letting him go during a strike in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Seeing Kashmiri residents doing calisthenics on the side of the road was once common in the 1990s, as government forces sought to humiliate people as a way of dissuading any support for armed rebels fighting against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan territory. As the rebellion was crushed, Indian soldiers mostly stopped using public sit-ups as a form of punishment.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 29 March 2017


Kashmiri school girls tend to a wounded girl after she was hit by a stone during a protest in Srinagar on April 20, 2017.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 20 April 2017 


Kashmiri students throw stones and bricks at Indian government forces during a protest against the attack by Indian government forces on students, on April 24, 2017, in Srinagar.: photo by Yawar Nazir / Getty, 24 April 2017


An injured man lies on the ground during a clash between Kashmiri students and Indian government forces on April 24, 2017, in Srinagar.: photo by Yawar Nazir / Getty, 24 April 2017


 Kashmiri students shout slogans as they clash with police in Srinagar on April 24, 2017.: photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP, 24 April 2017

  
Indian policemen detain a protester during a clash between students and police in Srinagar on April 24, 2017.: photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP, 24 April 2017


Indian policemen are silhouetted as tear gas smoke engulfs a Kashmiri protester in Srinagar on February 10, 2017. Indian forces fired tear gas shells to prevent a protest march to the disputed Himalayan region's office of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) called by separatist leaders demanding the mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat, founder of Jammu Kashmir Libration Front (JKLF) and Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man executed after being convicted of attacking the Indian Parliament.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 10 February 2017
 

Kashmiri Muslims stand near the bullet-riddled wall of a war-ravaged residential house after a gun battle between Indian government forces and Kashmiri rebels on March 9, 2017 in Padgampoor, south of Srinagar. Two civilians were killed in clashes with Indian government forces when they tried to save the local rebels who were engaged in a gun battle. The rebels were also killed in later in the day, in the Pulwoma district of south Kashmir.: photo by Yawar Nazir / Getty, 24 April 2017


An Indian policeman places dirt on a road, covering bloodstains at the scene after suspected rebels attacked Indian government forces on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, on the outskirts of Srinagar, on April 3, 2017. Six Indian soldiers and a civilian were injured in the incident.: photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP, 3 April 2017

 
An Indian army soldier keeps vigil on a vehicle after rebels ambushed an army convoy on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 1, 2017.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 1 April 2017


Kashmiri villagers offer prayers during the funeral of Umer Farooq, a Kashmiri civilian who was killed at Baroosa village in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on April 10, 2017. Government forces opened fire on Sunday on crowds of people who attacked polling stations during a by-election for a vacant seat in India's Parliament, killing eight people.: photo by Mukhtar Khan / AP, 10 April 2017


Kashmiri villagers bury the body of Mohammad Ayoub Wani, a civilian killed in a grenade blast, in Goosu, about 40 Kilometers (25 miles) south of Srinagar, on March 3, 2017. Wani was killed and two others, including a soldier, were wounded on Friday after suspected militants hurled a grenade at paramilitary soldiers in a southern town in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 3 March 2017

 
A Kashmiri villager grieves near the body of Mohammad Ayoub Wani, a civilian killed in a grenade blast, in Goosu, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on March 3, 2017.: photo by Dar Yasin / AP, 3 March 2017


A masked Kashmiri demonstrator smokes a cigarette during a protest against the recent killing of a civilian, in Srinagar, on April 17, 2017.: photo by Danish Ismail / Reuters, 17 April 2017 

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

[Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 10 June 2017

Untitled | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 19 May 2017

Windy evening | by swapniljedhe.com

Windy evening [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 31 May 2015

L1120077 | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 15 January 2016

Untitled | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 22 June 2017

Monsoon 2014 | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 26 July 2014

Pune, 2016 | by swapniljedhe.com

Pune, 2016: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 16 September 2016

Winter morning exercise #2 | by swapniljedhe.com

Winter morning exercise #2 [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 15 January 2015

SWA_7503 | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 18 September 2014

Pune, 2016 | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 15 December 2016

Childhood of homeless child | by shardartarikul

Childhood of homeless child [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 20 April 2017


Childhood of homeless child | by shardartarikul

Childhood of homeless child [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 20 April 2017

Childhood of homeless child | by shardartarikul

Childhood of homeless child [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 20 April 2017

Dhaka street | by shardartarikul

Dhaka street: photo by shardar tarikul, 2 May 2017

Dhaka street | by shardartarikul

Dhaka street: photo by shardar tarikul, 2 May 2017

Dhaka street | by shardartarikul

Dhaka street: photo by shardar tarikul, 2 May 2017

I was born weak and thats my fault | by shardartarikul

I was born weak and thats my fault: photo by shardar tarikul, 23 December 2017

Dhaka,Bangladesh | by shardartarikul

Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by shardar tarikul, 3 April 2017

Dhaka,Bangladesh | by shardartarikul

Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by shardar tarikul, 3 April 2017

Dhaka,Bangladesh | by shardartarikul

Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by shardar tarikul, 3 April 2017

working hour | by shardartarikul

working hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 25 September 2016

working hour | by shardartarikul

working hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 25 September 2016

working hour | by shardartarikul

working hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 25 September 2016

Time to fly (again) / "freedom is mine..." | by Özgür Gürgey

Time to fly (again) /"freedom is mine...". "and I know how I feel". Two crows on the subway bridge over Haliç (The Golden Horn) [Istanbul]: photo by Ozgür Gürgey, 17 June 2017

Time to fly (again) / "freedom is mine..." | by Özgür Gürgey

Time to fly (again) /"freedom is mine...". "and I know how I feel". Two crows on the subway bridge over Haliç (The Golden Horn) [Istanbul]: photo by Ozgür Gürgey, 17 June 2017

Time to fly (again) / "freedom is mine..." | by Özgür Gürgey

Time to fly (again) /"freedom is mine...". "and I know how I feel". Two crows on the subway bridge over Haliç (The Golden Horn) [Istanbul]: photo by Ozgür Gürgey, 17 June 2017

September 2016, Pune | by swapniljedhe.com

September 2016, Pune: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 16 September 2016

SKJ_4402 | by swapniljedhe.com

SKJ_4402 [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 8 June 2013

SKJ_1960 | by swapniljedhe.com

SKJ_1960 [Pune]: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 22 November 2013

Golden Hour | by shardartarikul

Golden hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 23 October 2016

Golden Hour | by shardartarikul

Golden hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 23 October 2016

Golden Hour | by shardartarikul

Golden hour [Dhaka]: photo by shardar tarikul, 23 October 2016

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