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December 24 20132013-12-24A night-time outdoor ritual at a stone-walled enclosure. A man with a shaved head and bare upper body, wearing a white dhoti with gold-bordered waist cloth and beaded wrist bands, holds a silver lamp with a large burning flame and stands before three dark stone deity murtis garlanded with yellow and orange flower garlands. Small white pebbles line the base, and a red wall and dark foliage with small blue fairy lights frame the scene.2013-12-24November 24 20122012-11-24January 01 20142014-01-01Night photograph of a priest performing aarti before three dark grey stone deity statues set against a dark hedge and red brick wall. The priest stands at right, bare-chested and shaven-headed, with white markings on his forehead and arms, wearing an orange-saffron cloth over his shoulder and an orange dhoti. He holds a brass lamp with a burning flame in his right hand and a brass bell in his left. The central statue shows a standing deity with multiple arms beside a peacock, flanked by two smaller standing figures. Pebbles and a low rock border lie in the foreground.2013-05-27January 09 20132013-01-09November 24 20122012-11-24Night photograph of an outdoor shrine area lit by strings of multicoloured fairy lights in a tree and along a chain-link fence. Three grey stone sculptures of deity murtis stand under a golden arched frame at left, set on a red base above a low stacked-stone wall. At right, one person in a saffron-orange garment with a gold-trimmed border and long dark hair faces the shrine, holding a lit oil lamp in one hand and a bell in the other, performing aarti. A small standing light is in the foreground.2016-12-22December 22 20162016-12-22November 17 20132013-11-17 +1 copiesDecember 28 20112011-12-28Evening 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.2015-02-19