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    Jun 12, 2020 4 minutes

    Manu Saluja

    Amid the clamour and commotion of 400 volunteers cooking in the communal kitchen at Sikhism’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Punjab, India, Manu Saluja was struck by the serenity of one particular individual. “There was this elderly man doing a very simple act of cutting onions,” says the New York-based artist. “He was just very quiet and peaceful, it stopped me in my tracks.”

    Manu was visiting as the winner of the BP Travel Award 2019. She had made previous trips to the shrine as a child during family holidays and returned to carry out her proposal to paint portraits of the volunteers who serve free meals to around

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