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A woman with long wavy light-brown hair sits with palms pressed together in namaste, eyes lowered, wearing a cream sari with green and gold border and an orange shawl, with a red bindi and a thin bangle on her wrist. Beside her, a shaved-headed man in white dhoti with red border and gold neck ornaments sits with eyes closed, and at right another shaved-headed man with white tripundra marks sits in orange robes with a rudraksha mala, inside an ashram hall with orange walls and gold-patterned panels. No a person candidate is visible.

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Close photograph of a woman with her palms pressed together in namaste at her chest, eyes lowered, with a red bindi on her forehead. She wears a cream blouse and cream sari with a red-and-purple striped border, draped with an orange shawl, and gold bangles on her wrist. Beside her, a blurred woman in an orange shawl and a second blurred figure in the lower left are seated, one with a white tilak mark. Behind them, an orange cloth and a blurred golden surface suggest a temple or ashram hall with a red cushioned seat.2010-10-30October 05 20142014-10-05 +1 copiesA photograph of a seated woman in a cream sari with a pink and purple border and an orange shawl, her palms pressed together in anjali mudra at her chest, eyes lowered. A red bindi is visible on her forehead and gold bangles on her wrist. Beside her, a woman in an orange shawl looks forward, and at the left a man in an orange robe with a gold necklace sits near a microphone. Behind them a red cushion and a gold-draped seat or throne are visible, and a pink flower lies at the lower edge.2010-10-30A close photograph of devotees at a group puja. In the centre, a young woman with hair pulled back wears a white sari with a green border and an orange shawl, her palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a red kumkum dot and white tilak on her forehead. Beside her, a woman in a white sari with a gold border has her eyes closed and hands folded. At the lower left, a young boy with a red mark on his forehead is partly visible. At the lower right, a shaved-headed priest with white tilak lines and a red dot chants, wearing gold ornaments. The background is a soft pale wall and dark curtain.2010-10-19A seated group of women in a courtyard during a Paduka Puja. The central woman with long light-brown hair wears a cream and yellow garment with a yellow shawl and a rudraksha mala, and holds a flat tray with a folded orange and yellow cloth topped with purple flowers. Behind her, a woman with a vermilion dot on her forehead presses her palms together in anjali. On the right, a woman in a yellow-trimmed white sari looks down, and at left an edge of another person in white and green-bordered cloth is visible. Sitting on a pale stone floor, they appear to be offering the cloth as part of the ritual.2010-09-25October 22 20152015-10-22 +1 copiesMay 04 20142014-05-04December 05 20162016-12-05December 30 20142014-12-30May 09 20142014-05-09Two men sit cross-legged in a hall with red-cushioned chairs behind them, hands pressed together in anjali mudra. The man on the left, with hair tied in a topknot and a red-and-saffron shawl over bare shoulders, wears a white dhoti with gold border and rudraksha mala. The man on the right, in white dhoti with a red-brown armband and rudraksha mala, has a white vibhuti mark on his forehead and eyes closed. Another person is partly visible at the far left edge. Their posture suggests satsang or prayer.2016-08-11A photograph of a woman in the foreground holding a small lit oil lamp in her right hand, a flame visible near her hand. She wears a cream sari with a yellow shawl draped over her shoulder and red-and-green patterned borders, and has a red bindi on her forehead and a mala around her neck. Behind her a younger woman in an orange-and-cream sari with a red bindi holds her hands together in prayer. A second oil lamp with a flame sits at lower right, and blurred red and orange architecture fills the background.2010-11-09