This is our last Photos of the Week post for 2023. Here is a look at some of our favorite photos, one from each month in 2023.

Leema David, Vaishnavi Rajagopalan and Ramitha Manjunath dress backstage at before The Kanha School of Dance’s production of “Amugdha Malyada at Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto, Calif. on Jan. 22, 2023. “Amugdha Malyada” is a bharatanatyam dance drama narrating the life of the Tamil poet-saint Andal. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Lavakumar Baskaran holds one of his chickens in the backyard of his Elk Grove, Calif. home on Feb. 20, 2023. Mr. Baskaran has raised the chickens since they were two weeks old. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Women dance to Bollywood beats at the Association of Indo Americans (AIA) and Bollywwod FM 92.3’s Holi Fest at Discovery Meadow Park in San Jose, Calif. on Mar. 11, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Two mothers check on their children at the Los Gatos Islamic Center’s Eid festival in Los Gatos, Calif. on Apr. 21, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Kamakshi, 3, plays with her mom’s phone during a carnatic concert at Sanatana Dharma Kendra in San Jose, Calif. on May 20, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Abraham Verghese speaks about his new book, The Covenant of Water, at Kepler’s in Menlo Park, Calif. on June 1, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Parvin Sohal laughs with a friend before her performance at the San Jose Teeyan at Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose, Calif. on July 30, 2023. Parvin is Punjabi but grew up in Rajasthan, and is dressed in Rajasthani clothing for her performance. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Arvind Kachhi dances to karaoke at the Association of Indo American’s Swades India Independence Day Celebrations at Discovery Meadow Park in San Jose, Calif. on Aug. 12, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Ganga Subramanian, 86, looks at the uppu seedai she is making at home in Dublin, Calif. on Sept. 5, 2023. The savory snack will be eaten the next day on Krishna Janmashtami. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local
Gurdeep Hira plays the dhol at Mosaic America’s annual Mosaic Festival at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose, Calif. on Oct. 1, 2023. Mosaic America is a non-profit that encourages cultural collaboration that highlights the common threads between communities and their American story. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local
Aviana Chugtu, 5, stand between her parents, Puja and Manish, while they all hold sparklers for Diwali at the Vaidica Vidhya Ganapathi Center (VVGC) in San Martin, Calif. on Nov. 12, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local
Dancer and choreographer Joya Nandy Kazi performs on stage at the Lead In Heels’s fundraising gala at University of Silicon Andhra in Milpitas, Calif. on Dec. 3, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local

Sree Sripathy joined India Currents as a staff photographer and CatchLight Local Fellow as part of CatchLight's California Local Visual Desk program in June 2022. Reach out with story ideas or comments...