Smithsonian Picks Tribal Baby Photo as Contest Winner, Readers Prefer Little Leaguers

Although our fingers were crossed for Lord Krishna and his trusty cell phone, Smithsonian has chosen otherwise. The grand prize winner of the magazine’s fifth annual photo contest is Abhijit Dey of Barrackpore, India, who snapped this shot (at left) of six-day-old Betka Tudu receiving blessings from fellow members of the Santhal tribe in the Indian village of Purulia. Call us cynical, but we could totally see this toward the front of Vogue as a jewelry ad (John

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