Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is interviewed by Jasleen Khanuja of Yo India TV at the Santa Clara Convention Center on the first day of the Ashavari Music Festival in Santa Clara, Calif. on May 25, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Hindustani musician Nachiketa Yakkundi (center) hangs out backstage on the first day of the Ashavari Music Festival at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. on May 25, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
A profusion of wildflowers blossom by the roadside of a neighborhood street in San Jose, Calif. on May 28, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Brooms and a green plant lay outside an Indian grocery store in San Jose, Calif. on May 20, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Vijay Rajvaidya and Vandana Kumar talk with Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Mary Anne Dewan, at the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s annual Civic Engagement Expo at the office’s building in San Jose, Calif. on May 23, 2023. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Jagdev Singh, 84, attends the final day of the Ashavari Music Festival at Spangenberg Theatre in Palo Alto, Calif. on May 27, 2023. Mr. Singh drove with his wife from Fresno, California. Photo: Sree Sripathy for India Currents/CatchLight Local.
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri plays the tabla at Spangenberg Theatre on the final day of the Ashavari Music Festival in Palo Alto, Calif. on May 27, 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...