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June 04 2006

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Photograph framed through a pointed white arched gateway with large dark studded wooden doors, looking out onto a street. Several people wearing orange and saffron robes walk along the road, one in the foreground carrying a backpack and wearing an orange cap and orange lower garments. Others in white clothes and orange garments walk behind a white car, and a green-and-yellow auto rickshaw sits at right beside a white-clad figure. Trees and a low yellow building with a tiled roof stand in the background, with a red umbrella visible near the building. Bright marigold-style garlands hang from a pole.2006-06-04June 04 20062006-06-04June 04 20062006-06-04August 11 20092009-08-11October 12 20122012-10-12A photograph taken through a tall red wooden gate, looking out onto a paved path shaded by trees. A figure in a saffron-orange robe with long, swept-back dark hair walks at the centre, holding his hands together in front of him. An orange umbrella is held over him by an attendant behind. Around him walk several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some with orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and one bare-chested man on the left with hands pressed together in a greeting gesture. Fallen leaves dot the ground and green foliage fills the background.2006-11-09July 14 20092009-07-14A procession seen through a dark doorway frame on a dirt path with grass and trees, led by a man with long dark hair wearing an orange saffron robe and a red-brown sash, walking between two attendants holding ornate umbrellas with gold and red fringes and teal-and-red panels. Behind them a group of people in orange robes and white dhotis and kurtas walk along, with several children in white and a man in a white shirt carrying an offering tray. Several women in orange saris are also in the procession. The scene reads as a ritual procession through an ashram grounds.2006-10-21A photograph of a large crowd walking in procession through an ornate stone gateway at a temple-style ashram in India. Many people wear white dhotis and saffron-orange shawls. In the foreground, a man in white with a rudraksha-style mala and bare feet holds a mobile phone, while a man in saffron robes with a red-bordered cloth and a red tilak walks beside him. A seated sadhu with a bare torso and ash marks sits at the right edge. Palm fronds and a framed image above the gate appear in the background.2008-08-03December 30 20092009-12-30A large procession moves down a tree-lined road in daylight. Many men in white dhotis and shirts wear orange saffron shawls and walk in rows, some carrying orange flags on poles. Ornate decorated palanquins or floats with bright canopies are visible in the middle of the procession. A uniformed police officer in khaki walks among the marchers. Roadside shops, a bicycle and a parked motorcycle line the right side, and a few onlookers stand by the left edge.2008-08-01A street procession of about a dozen men in orange and saffron robes walks along a dusty road lined with shops and palm trees. In the centre, a bare-chested man in a red-orange wrap wears a large orange-and-red flower garland and a rudraksha mala, and a bald man in orange clothing walks beside him. Several men in white dhotis and yellow shawls walk at the left edge, and a few people in white and orange stand behind. A bicycle leans at the right and a colourful shop display hangs on the right wall, with a pale orange multi-storey building in the background.2009-07-13