Culturally Speaking
PHOTO GALLERIES
Local knowledge provides a foundation for global understanding. With a keen instinct for juxtaposition, National Geographic photographers capture local color to help paint a clearer picture of cultures around the world.

  
INSIGHTS ON INDIA
Photograph by Steve McCurry
"Young Buddhist students at a monastery near Darjiling play the English game of cricket before a wall of Tibetan script. An infinite interplay of cultures, histories, and dreams propels a young nation as old as time."

—From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine