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June 05 2011

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A small copper oil lamp with a lit flame sits on a copper plate on a concrete floor. Beside it lie a magenta rose and a white-and-yellow frangipani flower. Behind them is a rangoli or kolam design drawn in white, red, yellow, green and blue powder. The setting is a dim, shadowed corner with a plain stone wall at the right edge. No people are visible.2011-02-02A photograph of a floor offering in a dim, earthen-walled space. A brass lamp with a glass chimney and a lit oil flame sits on a brass tray, surrounded by a ring of red and yellow marigold flowers with a small sprig of green leaves. Faint white chalk or kolam-style lines are drawn on the ground around the offering. No people are visible; a warm light beam falls from the upper left across the floor.2012-04-01A lit clay oil lamp sits on a small brass dish on a stone floor, its flame glowing in the centre. Beside it lie a pink rose and a white and yellow frangipani flower. Around them is a colourful floor design in white, red, yellow and green powder, with a few flower-like patterns. The setting is dim and shadowed, with no people visible.2011-02-02A photograph of a dark, arched opening formed by the thick roots and trunk of a large banyan-like tree, framed by two weathered stone or concrete blocks. Inside the opening, a single small oil lamp with a flickering flame sits in a shallow dish on the ground, surrounded by white kolam-style line designs drawn on the earth. A partially visible blue sign bearing a white letter stands at the upper right. No people are visible in the scene.2011-06-05October 18 20172017-10-18Night photograph of a small oil lamp burning with a bright yellow-blue flame on a pale stone ledge beside dark water at the Vaidya Sarovar tank. A dark silhouetted figure in a dark wrap or garment, with faint glints of light on the shoulder, sits or kneels at the edge near the lamp. Most of the frame is black, with a faint glow reflecting off the stone edge in the lower left.2010-01-02 +1 copiesJanuary 02 20102010-01-02 +1 copiesNovember 18 20152015-11-18May 03 20142014-05-03December 22 20112011-12-22A close-up photograph of a single lit brass oil lamp, its flame rising upright from a wick in a shallow, petal-shaped brass dish with a raised stem. The background is dark, with blurred red and gold shapes in the upper right and out-of-focus figures or objects along the bottom edge. No people are clearly visible; the scene is a quiet lamp-lighting detail from a satsang setting.2013-09-24May 18 20132013-05-18