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A construction site with concrete columns being poured. Three workers are visible at ground level and on a scaffold. A man in a white shirt and cap stands on the scaffold holding a hose, while another worker in a blue shirt stands beside him near a red pump engine. At left, a worker in a light shirt and yellow head wrap pushes a wheelbarrow of wet concrete, and a man in a pink-and-white shirt and blue cap stands nearby with a trowel. Rebar rods rise from the columns against a pale sky, and wooden formwork and blue scaffolding surround them.

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A photograph of a construction site with concrete pillars being built on a flat roof slab. Rebar rods stick up from the columns, and wooden and metal formwork surrounds the pillars. Workers in casual clothes, including a man in a pink-and-white striped shirt and a man in a white shirt, stand on scaffolding and mix concrete in a tray beside a cement mixer. Wheelbarrows, buckets, coiled hoses and metal scaffold frames lie around the site under a hazy sky, with a partly built brick wall at the right edge.2010-02-03A photograph of an outdoor construction site at a temple foundation in a dry, open area. Several tall vertical steel rebar cages stand in red-brown excavated earth, held by wooden formwork boxes at their bases. Workers in light shirts move about the pit; one stands on a bamboo ladder and two others crouch low in the trench. Bamboo ladders, a coiled hose, wooden planks and stacked lumber lie scattered in the mud, with puddles of standing water at the lower left. Green shrubs, trees and low walls fill the background under an overcast sky.2009-07-09A concrete building under construction with exposed rebar columns, timber and steel formwork, and blue vertical support props on a slab. Four workers stand on the upper deck: three near the centre wearing a white shirt, a light blue shirt and a tan shirt, and one on scaffolding at right in a red shirt and dark trousers. Tall metal scaffold poles and a yellow ladder frame the right side under a pale sky. No deities, ritual objects or identifiable spiritual figures are visible.2009-10-15A photo of an outdoor construction site where concrete columns are being poured on a flat slab. Rebar rods stick up from the columns, which are boxed in timber formwork held by blue metal scaffolding. Five or six workers in ordinary work clothes mix and pour wet concrete from a wheelbarrow and a tray, and one worker stands high on the scaffold feeding a hose. Green and grey hoses lie across the wet floor. On the left, a man in a white dhoti and a yellow shawl stands watching the work. Low brick walls and palm trees appear in the background.2010-02-03A construction site photo of a foundation trench being prepared for concrete. A worker in a white shirt, light trousers and a red cap stands on a wooden formwork frame that encloses vertical steel reinforcement rods rising from the excavated ground. Muddy water pools at the base of the trench, red-brown earth banks surround the pit, and a blue tarpaulin and wooden fencing with a few distant workers stand behind. A metal brace pole leans against the formwork. No a person candidate is visible.2009-07-09A construction site of a multi-storey concrete building under construction. Several workers in simple clothes stand on concrete floor slabs among blue steel scaffolding poles and props. One worker in a light shirt and dark trousers lifts a long pole, another in a yellow-green shirt and dark trousers stands below holding timber, and a third figure works higher up beside stacked yellow formwork panels. Blue tarpaulin hangs between the columns, with bundles of wooden planks and a leafy tree behind.2009-09-22A construction site photograph showing two workers tying rebar on a concrete structure. A man in a teal shirt and dark trousers stands at left bending over vertical steel reinforcing bars set between concrete columns, using a tool. A second worker in a red top and cap crouches low beside him on a mesh of horizontal rebar laid over sand and rubble. Tall concrete pillars rise between dense rows of orange-brown steel rods, and a stone retaining wall is behind.2009-12-17A construction site outdoors with two workers shoveling sand from a yellow wheelbarrow marked with the numeral 2 onto a concrete slab. The man on the right wears a white shirt, a blue checked lungi, and a striped head wrap, and is using a shovel. The young worker on the left wears a pink t-shirt and a white head cloth and holds the wheelbarrow handles. Behind them are a block wall building, red-and-wooden formwork panels, pale pipes, and a dry landscape with bare trees and hills. No swami or ritual figure is visible.2010-02-03A construction site at the Bidadi ashram with bare earth and piles of sand and gravel in the foreground. A concrete mixer on wooden wheels is being loaded by a worker in a white shirt and blue head wrap, while a second worker in a blue shirt and pink head wrap bends over sacks and buckets beside stacked iron rebar. Another worker in a striped shirt stands at the left. A white van, a small orange building and a boundary wall with trees sit in the background.2010-02-03A photograph of temple construction labour on a sandy site. Three men work barefoot with long-handled hoes or shovels, mixing wet grey concrete mixed with gravel on the ground. The man in the foreground wears a white shirt and a green-and-yellow checked lungi, bending forward over the mix. Behind him another worker in a white shirt and checked lungi stoops with a hoe. At left, a man in a teal top and plaid lungi holds a red bucket, while an orange bucket sits on the sand. Piles of sand and a loose cloth lie in the background.2006-12-09October 15 20092009-10-15October 15 20092009-10-15