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October 21 20152015-10-21October 21 20152015-10-21December 20 20112011-12-20May 21 20162016-05-21 +1 copiesDecember 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04Evening crowd of devotees at a brightly illuminated festival gateway decorated with pink and white lights, a lit spire, and star-like light displays, at a Kumbh Mela area. Many saffron-robed sadhus with shaved heads and white tilak marks walk among white-clad and colourful-sari devotees, some holding hands in a chain. Strings of lights, banners and flags frame the scene. A small portrait banner stands at left.2016-05-21Evening procession at a festival gate lit with pink and white lights and trident motifs. A large banner above the gate shows a deity and devotees. Crowds of men in saffron and orange robes walk along the road, some bare-chested with saffron cloths and white dhotis, while yellow flags are carried aloft. Yellow-vested police and volunteers line the barricades, and banners with portraits flank the route. No individual can be confidently identified from appearance, so no a person candidate is marked.2016-05-21October 21 20152015-10-21May 08 20152015-05-08Night photograph at a temple entrance in Tiruvannamalai. A large crowd of devotees, mostly dressed in white with some in blue and yellow saris, walks through a gated lane toward a lit temple gopuram. In the foreground, a small boy in a blue shirt and an older man with white hair and a white beard in white clothes walk together. A small shrine with a colourful painted tower stands at the left, with a flame or oil lamp burning near its base. Along the right, a metal barrier guides people in a line, and a few onlookers stand beyond it. A printed banner in red and yellow reads a Tamil temple inscription. No identifiable a person is visible in this crowd.2012-09-23 +1 copiesDecember 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04Night photograph of a crowd walking along a lane beside a temple wall at Tiruvannamalai during a girivalam-style circumambulation. Devotees wear white dhotis and shirts, several with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and some women wear pink, purple and maroon saris. A uniformed official in khaki stands among the group. Dim street lamps light the scene, and a lit temple gateway glows in the background. A man at the centre is slightly apart from the crowd, and a woman in pink holds a child at the lower right. No individual can be identified as a person from appearance in this image.2008-01-02