For the last 20 years, Sofika Zielyk has been making Ukrainian Easter eggs, known as “pysanky,” in her East Village studio, a craft she learned from her mother.
Celebrating India’s Festival of Colors
MANHATTAN – It was rainbow warfare on East 47th Street in celebration of Holi, India’s festival of colors. Aromatic spices filled the air and dancers twirled across the stage, as partygoers smeared colored powder in a sign of spring – and of New York’s growing South Asian community.