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February 17 2015

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Evening outdoor ritual at a dark stone shrine beside a red compound wall with barbed wire above. A standing priest in white dhoti with gold border and a rudraksha mala holds a lit flame, and a fire-spinning or aarti-style flame glows bright orange. A drummer's drum edge and a long wind instrument are visible at left. A dark stone deity murti or shrine stands at right, adorned with yellow and orange marigold garlands. Fairy lights are strung through bamboo and foliage. A stone-and-cobble base lies below. No other people are visible.2015-02-19December 17 20112011-12-17April 29 20152015-04-29A photograph of a priest performing an aarti with a flaming lamp during an evening ritual. He wears a cream-coloured turban and a white dhoti or shawl, with rudraksha beads and red-and-white bracelets on his wrists, and holds a lit oil lamp over a deity murti decorated with yellow marigold garlands and red rose garlands. Smoke and haze surround the scene against a dark background, and a silver offering vessel sits in the lower foreground. The visible person is a priest officiating the ritual, not an identified individual.2013-11-07Night outdoor scene at an open-air shrine. A shaved-headed person in white ritual dhoti and shawl with gold borders stands at left, holding a silver multi-flame aarti lamp with several burning flames toward a dark grey stone Ganesha murti with a trunk, adorned with yellow marigold garlands. The murti sits on a stone base before a red wall with bamboo and fairy lights; the person's arm has pale ash markings. Smoke rises. Small pebbles and a stacked stone ring surround the base.2013-12-24July 31 20152015-07-31September 08 20112011-09-08October 03 20142014-10-03Dusk outdoor scene at an ashram gate with a green metal gate on the left. A woman in a white sari holds a lit oil lamp aloft beside a stone-pillar shrine or murti surrounded by bamboo and a string of green fairy lights. Another woman in a pink top stands nearby. On the right, a group of devotees in white clothing wear garlands; an older man with white hair and a rudraksha-style mala stands centre-right, and a woman in white with a garland stands in front, hands clasped. A red-walled building with a green canopy is behind them. Several people stand in the background near a banana leaf.2015-02-19November 16 20152015-11-16A night-time photograph of a homa fire ritual at a temple. A bare-chested priest in white dhoti and shawl leans over a stone fire pit, pouring liquid from a metal vessel into flames that rise high. Several seated people in white clothes sit behind the pit, some holding offerings. Behind them is a deity murti adorned with white flower garlands, and a decorated kalasha-style structure stands in the background. Brass lamps and bowls with offerings sit on the altar in the foreground, and multicolour fairy lights glow on the wall.2010-10-16A night-time outdoor puja before a large grey stone Ganesha murti seated on a carved pedestal. A man in white ritual dhoti with a gold border and a gold-bordered cloth on one shoulder holds a silver aarti lamp with two flames toward the deity, a small bell in his other hand. Marigold garlands in yellow and orange hang on the murti. White pebbles surround the base, bamboo stands behind, and a red wall with strings of small lights frames the scene. The man's face is turned away and he is not clearly identifiable as a person; he is described by role only.2013-12-24