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September 16 20152015-09-16Night ceremony on a red brick temple-style staircase lit by bright floodlights, with strings of colourful fairy lights and red flags behind. A central elderly man with long swept-back white hair, a rudraksha-style bead mala and a gold-bordered orange-red shawl over orange-red robes is being steadied by two men in saffron-orange dhotis and shawls, one bare-chested with a bead mala. Several figures in white dhotis stand nearby, and brass or copper vessels and lamps line the steps on the right.2016-12-23Night photograph of a procession walking along a lit temple lane. Several men in white dhotis and shirts walk in the foreground, and a man in a rust-orange cloth and a rudraksha mala walks at centre, with long hair visible. A tall gopuram covered in lights rises behind them, with illuminated deity figures in blue and yellow lights on the left and colourful striped canopies on the right. Other people in white and orange cloths follow. Strings of fairy lights hang overhead.2006-12-04Night outdoor ritual scene beneath a large banyan tree. A man stands centre-right wearing a rust-red dhoti, a gold-toned ceremonial necklace, a long pink-and-white flower garland and a white forehead mark, raising one hand in greeting. Around him, several monks in orange and rust-red robes with white head bands stand in a line; one holds a brass plate of offerings and others hold ceremonial instruments. A cameraman in a blue striped shirt films at right, lit by a small light. A purple curtain hangs at left beside floral garlands, and a small canopy with green leaves sits above a tree-root platform.2013-07-22July 22 20132013-07-22February 06 20172017-02-06December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04September 16 20152015-09-16Night photograph outside a South Indian temple at Tiruvannamalai, with a lit gopuram tower and a decorated shrine entrance strung with blue and pink lights. In the centre, a man in a dark maroon dhoti and a white floral garland points upward while people gather around him. Nearby a man in saffron-orange robes with a mala holds a flower bundle, and a uniformed police officer in khaki stands beside them. On the left, men in white dhotis with gold-bordered shawls and gold necklaces stand among others in teal and white shirts. A photographer with a camera is visible at the right edge. Several men in orange cloth, white dhotis and rudraksha malas are part of the crowd of about twenty people.2017-02-06Night photograph of an outdoor ritual beneath a large banyan tree. A bare-chested priest in a red dhoti raises a lit aarti lamp toward a seated figure wearing a tall golden crown and white garments, who sits on a red stone platform before a dark stone deity murti on the right. Around them about a dozen men stand with palms pressed together in namaste, several in white dhotis and orange shawls, one in an orange turban and orange robe, another in a maroon shirt. A tall metal flagstaff stands at left with strands of white cloth hanging from its top. Offerings and a brass kalasha sit on the ground.2006-12-20July 07 20152015-07-07June 05 20122012-06-05