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April 10 2016

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A photograph of a young boy with short dark hair, eyes closed, receiving a blessing as an adult's right hand rests on his forehead. The adult wears rudraksha bracelets, a gold bangle and a gold ring, and an orange garment. The boy wears a saffron shawl printed with dark script and white clothing. Beside them stands a gold-toned deity murti with a crown-like headdress. A brass ritual vessel appears in the lower left foreground.2017-07-03A photograph of a young boy in a white kurta with an orange-and-saffron scarf bowing his head while a man in an orange-and-maroon shawl places his right hand on the boy's head. The man wears multiple rudraksha bead bracelets and a gold bangle, and his face is cut off at the top of the frame. Behind them stands a gold-toned metal deity murti with a crown-like headdress, beside a brass vessel and green leaves, and a partly visible figure in white and gold dress stands at the left edge. The setting suggests a blessing or initiation moment during a ritual.2017-07-03A young boy in a white top and rudraksha mala sits with eyes closed while a person's hand rests on his head and another hand holds his hand. The person giving blessing wears a beaded rudraksha bracelet and an orange-and-white flower garland is visible at left. A gold deity murti or ornamental object and pink flowers appear in the background. Another person in white is partially visible at the right edge.2016-01-10May 02 20172017-05-02October 12 20162016-10-12A bare-chested boy with short dark hair sits with eyes closed and a faint smile, palms pressed together in namaste. A hand with a red thread on the wrist rests on his forehead, blessing him. He wears rudraksha malas and a white sacred thread across his chest. Behind him stands another child with a white thread. A blurred golden lamp and warm lights glow at left, and a garland of yellow and red flowers appears at right. The setting suggests a darshan blessing ritual.2017-02-19May 02 20172017-05-02April 20 20172017-04-20A photograph of a young boy, shirtless with a white cord necklace and a rudraksha bead pendant with a small gold medallion, eyes closed in meditative stillness as an adult's hand, wearing rudraksha bracelets and a gold bangle, rests on his forehead. A woman in an orange-brown sari is partly visible at right. Coloured bokeh lights and smoke fill the blurred background.2017-05-02February 13 20172017-02-13May 02 20172017-05-02A young boy in a white kurta with a rudraksha-bead pendant stands with eyes closed while an adult's hand, wearing a red thread bracelet, presses a white paste mark on his forehead during an initiation. Behind him stands a young man with bare shoulders wrapped in an orange cloth, wearing a rudraksha mala with large gold-coloured beads and a small pendant, and bands of rudraksha on his upper arm. Other people in white clothes are blurred in the background, and a second hand reaches into the foreground.2017-02-13