
April 20, 2025, Cambridge, Ma, USA: Harvard University and Harvard Square Scenes with Students and Pedestrians (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)
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May 24, 2025, Cambridge, Ma, USA: Harvard University, details, and street scenes, days before graduation during a period of punitive measures by the Trump Administration to ban foreign students and deny governments grants for research including medical and scientific and other academic areas that make the university and the United States grate and attrative to students aroiund the world. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)
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May 28, 2025, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S: An anti-Harvard message on a truck. Graduation ceremonies continue at Harvard University. University details, and street scenes,and campus at the days of graduations, and during a period of punitive measures by the Trump Administration to ban foreign students and deny governments grants for research including medical and scientific and other academic areas that make the university and the United States great and attractive to students around the world. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)
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May 28, 2025, Elkton, Oregon, USA: Feral honey bees interact at the edge of their hive, hidden in a crack in the concrete of a loading dock behind a fruit processing barn near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon. Though originally imported from Europe, honey bees have naturalized across North America and play a vital role in pollinating both crops and wild plants.
Video Credit © Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press
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May 3, 2025, Cambridge, Ma, USA: Harvard University Area Scenes. Students and visitors walk along Massachusetts Avenue at Harvard Square. Harvard University is an active and scenic area contributing to art and culture and intellectual and economic life of the region and beyond. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)
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Diptendu Dutta, a talented ZUMA photographer, masterfully captures the rich traditions and vibrant culture of his region. His work not only highlights the beauty of local customs but also explores the social and economic impacts shaping the lives of people in his community. We are pleased to share a few of his compelling videos.
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ZUMA Video: Women who live in Porajhar Village makes Colored Powder known as Gulal

March 2, 2025, Siliguri, West Bengal, India: Women’s who lives in Porajhar village makes and prepares colored powder known as Gulal using vegetables – carrot, spinach, spinach and marigold flowers ,which is used for upcoming Holi festival in Siliguri. They expect to earn Indian rupees 250 after selling them to the various houses and other places.
Video Credit © Diptendu Dutta/ZUMA Press
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ZUMA Video: India Prepares For Holi Hindu Festival

February 28, 2025, Siliguri, West Bengal, India: Workers dry color powder which is packaged and sold for the upcoming Hindu spring festival – Holi at Sastrinagar area in Siliguri.
Video Credit © Diptendu Dutta/ZUMA Press
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April 29, 2025, New York, New York, USA: Climate protesters with Planet Over Profit blockade the entrance to Wells Fargo corporate offices in Hudson Yards in midtown Manhattan holding banners that read ‘OIL WELLS FARGO FUNDS DEATH’ and ‘END FINANCIAL COLONIALISM’ resulting in multiple arrests by NYPD. On the day of the Wells Fargo General Meeting demonstrators denounce the bank for funding fossil fuel infrastructure and pipelines and rolling back climate protections. (Credit Image: © Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire)
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May 3, 2025, Cambridge, Ma, USA: Harvard University Area Scenes. Students and visitors walk along Massachusetts Avenue at Harvard Square. Harvard University is an active and scenic area contributing to art and culture and intellectual and economic life of the region and beyond. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)
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May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)

May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)

May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)

May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)

May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)

May 4, 2024, Sylhet, Bangladesh: Sylhet-Bangladesh: Rhesus Macaque monkeys Baby in Mothers lap at the Shrine of Hazrat Chasni Pir (R) premisis. This Monkeys always wait to visitors whos bringing some foods. Most of the Monkeys are starving if adequate visitors not come frequently. Hazrat Chashni Pir was a geologist and he was the closest companion of Great Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal. He had a pet monkey. When Hazrat Chashni Pir (R) died, monkeys started breeding and his tomb became famous for monkeys. Visitors who believe that if the monkeys accept their food offerings, their supplications become fulfilled. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire)
Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press