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.

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?

Immediately after Kamna Mittal and her husband were married in their hometown of Delhi in 2000, they were off to the United States, where they settled in the Bay Area. In addition to being in a new city, the couple was new to each other. Their marriage had been arranged.

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.