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December 29 2010

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Night-time street scene outside a vehicle with an open grey side door. A man with long swept-back dark hair, bare-shouldered in orange-saffron cloth, smiles while a garland of white and yellow flowers is placed around his neck. Several devotees in white dhotis and shirts and orange robes stand close, one in white bending forward to offer a garland. A red and gold fringed umbrella, and a tree with street lights, frame the scene. Behind, more people gather and vehicles are parked along the road.2010-12-29Night-time photo at an outdoor roadside as devotees receive a person stepping out of a grey van with open side door. A man in orange robes wears a long white and red flower garland and a yellow shawl, smiling. Beside him, a bald man in orange garments wears an orange-and-beige bead necklace, while a man in white dhoti and white shirt with a yellow shawl bends forward near the vehicle. Another white-clad attendant in an orange stole holds a brass tray. A large red, green and yellow fringed umbrella overhead and green trees surround the scene. Roughly ten to fifteen people are visible.2010-12-29April 26 20122012-04-26July 21 20102010-07-21July 15 20112011-07-15July 27 20082008-07-27Night outdoor photo at a roadside gathering beside a dark car with its door open. In the centre, a long-haired figure with his back to the camera wears an orange robe edged with gold and a white flower garland, standing by the open car door. Around him, men in white dhotis and shawls, several shaved-headed, stand with palms pressed together in namaste, and a man in white kneels in the foreground. A man in white with a rudraksha-style mala holds a green banana leaf or plantain offering. Warm string lights and lamps glow in the background among onlookers. The orange-robed figure cannot be confirmed as a person from appearance alone, so no identification is made.2011-05-16A crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts, many wearing rudraksha malas, surrounds a central figure in a saffron-orange robe who wears a pink flower garland and has a sandalwood tilak on the forehead. A red umbrella with colourful tasselled fringe is held overhead. On the left a man stands beside a silver vehicle, and a camera operator in an orange shawl with a rudraksha mala films the scene. Green trees and palm trees are in the background. The central figure has long dark hair and a saffron robe with a pink garland, consistent with the a person cues of long hair, saffron clothing and garland, though the identification is uncertain.2006-11-13Outdoor photograph beside a white car at what appears to be an entrance area. A man in an orange saffron robe with long swept-back hair and a white and red garland bows with hands held together while a second man in orange, also with long hair and a pink and yellow flower garland being lifted over his head, stands beside him. Around them, men in white shirts and dhotis assist, one in a white shirt on the left and another in white on the right, while women in white-flowered hair garlands and saris, one in a red blouse, stand in the foreground with hands folded. A printed pedia.org, which is omitted here2010-02-14Night photo of a crowd around a central figure in orange robes with long matted dreadlocks and a rudraksha-style necklace, bare-shouldered and wrapped in an orange cloth. Two large ceremonial umbrellas with multicolored tassels and fringes are held on poles above the group. Devotees in orange robes and white shirts surround him, some with hands folded. A white car is in the foreground, and a striped canopy is behind. Someone in a white kurta on the left is raising a hand. Multiple people are visible, roughly six to twenty.2007-12-30January 11 20092009-01-11December 31 20092009-12-31