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October 24 20062006-10-24October 20 20062006-10-20Outdoor photo of a crowd of devotees gathered before a large framed portrait on a stand. The portrait shows a smiling person wearing a white head wrap and rudraksha beads, with a line of Tamil text printed below. Foreground men in white shirts stand with palms pressed together in namaskar, one with a mustache and a red tilak, another bowing with eyes closed. A man in an orange saffron garment stands at right beside a speaker and a small offering table holding packets and fruit. Green trees and a gold-coloured decorative pillar appear behind. The portrait is a printed picture, not a physical person, and its subject is shown as a printed portrait with an identity uncertain from appearance.2006-09-30August 08 20092009-08-08January 06 20132013-01-06October 20 20062006-10-20A dense street procession moves through a town lined with corrugated metal roofs and small shops. In the foreground, many men in white shirts and dark trousers press forward, several wearing glasses, with one older man in a cap at centre. A blue-and-white bus on the left carries a large banner showing a smiling bearded man in a yellow turban and white garment, with printed text reading Nithyanandaa Centre for Metal Works. Behind the crowd, red and orange flags and white flags flutter, and uniformed police officers walk among the marchers. Strings of small white and blue pennants stretch across the street. Several more framed portraits of the same turbaned man are carried above the crowd, and a sign on the right shows another portrait.2006-09-24A street scene in Tamil Nadu where a crowd surrounds a white van with blue stripes and the word MISTIC visible on its side. In the right foreground a person with long dark hair, wearing a sleeveless red top and an orange shawl, faces the crowd. Behind the van, a large black banner shows a smiling woman's portrait with Tamil text urging the guru to come. Several people in white shirts and an elderly man in dark glasses, holding a purple and white flower garland, stand among the devotees, many wearing rudraksha malas and flower garlands. A green bus is parked on the left under trees.2009-08-06Outdoor photograph of a crowd of villagers lining a roadside under a tiled roof eave during a procession. In the foreground left, a large framed poster on a gilded ornate palanquin-style frame shows a smiling man with orange turban, hands joined in namaste, wearing a green and pink floral garland. Behind, people in saris, blue salwar, lungis and shirts stand together; a girl in a green school uniform is prominent. Several white flags and an orange saffron flag on a pole appear among green trees. Legible Tamil text appears on the poster. The poster portrait is a depiction; the real people are in the crowd.2006-10-20Outdoor street scene during a procession of deities at Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu. In the foreground a dark stone hand in abhaya mudra stands beside a flower-decorated wooden platform holding coconuts garlanded with white flowers. A man in white shirt and dhoti wearing an orange saffron shawl stands at the front, with a framed portrait on a stand behind him. A crowd of onlookers watches, including a man in a red-and-white ritual shawl holding papers and a man filming with a camera. A green-and-white state transport bus with Tamil destination boards is behind the crowd.2006-10-13Outdoor street gathering during a padayatra-style procession, with a crowd pressing close around a woman in orange saffron robes who raises her right hand to bless a seated devotee. Behind her, a woman in a light-blue sari and a woman in a green sari bend forward to touch the head of a kneeling person in a dark floral top, while others in white clothes and white sarees watch and reach in. Several men in white shirts and orange-bordered cloths stand to the left, and a man in a white cap is at the right edge. Overhead, a red-and-white canopy with tasselled fringe shades the scene. Behind the crowd are handheld placards with framed portraits of a woman in orange, and a man with a camera stands on a stool. Trees and a yellow kiosk line the street.2009-01-21July 01 20142014-07-01