Our auto-rickshaw driver seemingly couldn't believe his luck to have a god and two goddesses piled in the back of his cab.

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Graffiti art, an established medium in the West, is beginning to take hold in India. As the methods are developing, the key players are in flux. Street artist Daku, who has been active on the streets since 2008, is at the epicenter.

The museum at Delhi's Tibet House is one room, with its walls lined with painted woodcut prints and a few cases with artifacts. The one other visitor sat cross-legged in front of a large, intricately-carved wooden display case.

Religious Hindu man takes community god offerings

Elderly man says with great joy that he has been at the temple helping his neighbors honor Hindu gods for “too many years.”

“She’s beautiful.” That’s what everyone says when I show them this photo. She is beautiful. But what you can’t tell — unless you look really closely at the stains on her dress or at the makeshift structure in the background — is that she’s a child of the slums, the poorest sector of Indian society.

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Ashis Nandy, receiving the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. (Mohan Trivedi/Wikimedia Commons)

The diverse crowd gathered to hear Indian scholar Ashis Nandy at USC all seemed to ask the same question, posed in different ways: How can we make people get along?

This is the big year 10 for the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, a small but growing five-day exhibition that takes places at the ArcLight every April. Shipra Gupta, operations coordinator for the festival, spoke to me about its significance.

Deities surround the diamonds and gold at Raj Jewels in Artesia, but few customers are interested in religious jewelry, according to owner Ravi Pattni. "The new generation want some new, different," he says. His biggest challenge as a jeweler is coming up with new creative designs to cater to his customers.