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May 19 20082008-05-19October 23 20102010-10-23Photo 11687491October 16 20102010-10-16A photograph of a row of seated devotees performing a puja during a ritual at an indoor hall. Two prominent women in front wear white dhotis or saris with orange shawls and fold their hands in prayer; the nearer woman wears glasses. Before them on woven mats are brass plates, bowls, small brass oil lamps lit with flames, a brass lota, a banana-leaf or cloth offering, scattered flower petals and white powder. Behind them more devotees in orange and white sit in a line, and a cloth-covered table stands at the back wall. No deity murti or a person candidate is clearly visible in this frame.2008-05-19November 12 20132013-11-12A photograph of a seated group of young women and girls in orange and red saris with rudraksha malas and white forehead markings, performing a ritual on silver trays with brass lamps, small plates of offerings and a lit oil lamp held by the foreground girl. Behind them, rows of seated devotees in white and orange sit on a white floor with ropes separating the rows.2014-02-05February 14 20122012-02-14November 08 20122012-11-08April 09 20142014-04-09A photograph of women seated in prayer at a Ganesha festival. In the foreground a woman in a white and gold-bordered sari with an orange shawl kneels on a striped mat, palms pressed together in namaskar, rudraksha beads on her wrist, eyes lifted upward. Behind her, other women in white garments with gold borders kneel with hands folded, and standing devotees in white dhotis and saris watch from a raised platform. Brass lamps and metal vessels sit on the mats in front of them.A photograph of a seated group of women and girls in saffron-orange robes with rudraksha malas performing a ritual on a tiled hall floor. Many wear white forehead bands. Each sits before a low silver tray holding brass plates of flowers, fruit and offerings, with small brass bells, oil lamps and a conch-shaped object nearby. A girl in a white dress with a mala sits in the centre, and a woman in orange in the foreground holds a small brass vessel. Behind them other seated devotees in orange and maroon fill the room, with a small white-clad figure at the far right.2014-02-05