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October 11 20152015-10-11October 27 20152015-10-27A photograph of a sandy riverbank at sunrise, with a hazy orange sky and sun near the horizon over calm water. A group of about twenty devotees in white clothes stand loosely in the sand, many wearing orange or rust-coloured shawls and scarves, and some with white hair. A woman in the centre wears white with a red-orange lanyard, and a woman at right in a red sari carries a basket of red flowers. Moored boats and distant shoreline appear in the background, and the group gazes toward the sun. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2015-10-27A bare-chested man with short dark hair and a trimmed beard stands on a stone ghat at dusk, smiling with both arms raised high. He wears only a white dhoti-style cloth and a thin chain at his neck, and his body appears dusted with light-coloured ash or powder. Behind him on the Ganges river, several wooden boats are moored along the bank, with a small group of people in colourful clothes gathered on a boat on the right and city lights glowing faintly on the far shore under a pink and lavender evening sky.2015-10-11A photo on a river ghat in Varanasi showing moored wooden boats along the water, with a few small boats and passengers on the river beyond and a hazy sky. In the right foreground a man with long, dark, swept-back hair and a red tilak on his forehead, wearing an orange-saffron shawl, smiles over his shoulder. Probable Swamiji by appearance cues of long hair and saffron clothing. A yellow flag on a pole and a metal railing stand at the right edge of the ghat.2006-01-06 +1 copiesOctober 11 20152015-10-11A photograph taken on a river boat on the Ganges at Varanasi, with wooden boats and ghats in the background. A smiling man with long, swept-back dark hair and a red bindi sits on the boat wearing a loose saffron-orange wrap. Behind him a man in an orange striped shirt and dark trousers stands holding a camera, and to the right a man in a grey hooded sweatshirt and brown trousers crouches on the boat edge holding a rope. The seated man shows a person appearance from the long hair and saffron wrap, though his identity is uncertain from appearance alone.A smiling man in saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala stands on a boat, looking toward a riverside city. He wears white forehead markings and a red bindi. Behind him, the river bank shows multi-storey stone buildings, temple spires and orange flags, with moored red and orange boats along the water. The scene is bright and hazy. Appearance-based label: a person, a saffron-clad figure with a rudraksha mala on a river boat.2014-04-04Four people sit cross-legged on bare sandy ground around blackened, ash-covered fire pits with charred logs, during what appears to be a fire ritual or penance. The woman in front wears white garments with gold borders, a dark bead mala with a small pendant, and sits with eyes closed and hands folded. Behind her, a bald man in white with a white cloth wrapped across his face sits with hands folded over a red-edged white dhoti. Two more seated people in white, one with a white cloth tied over the eyes and one with a blue cloth over the head, complete the group. Scattered terracotta pots and burnt wood lie on the ground.2007-02-02 +1 copiesA smiling person in a long orange saffron garment with a red bindi on the forehead stands on a wooden boat at dusk, holding a silver trident upright in one hand. Long dark hair falls past the shoulders. Behind them, a boatman in a red-and-white garment and a seated figure in a blue cap and shawl sit in a wooden rowing boat on calm river water under a pale pink and grey sky. A wooden oar and a bamboo pole lie in the water.A smiling man with long, voluminous dark hair sits in a wooden boat on a river, wrapped in an orange saffron shawl and holding a long pole or oar upright. Behind him, stone ghats with stepped embankments and several small boats moored along the bank rise above the water. A person in grey trousers is partially visible at the right edge of the frame, and a wooden boat gunwale runs across the bottom.May 14 20142014-05-14