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Two roadside fruit stalls under corrugated metal roofs beside a paved village road. The left stall is draped with red patterned cloth and a faded orange-brown awning, displaying pineapples, oranges, bananas, red apples and bunches of grapes in blue, green and orange plastic basins. Green and yellow fruit sits on a blue-checked cloth at the centre, with a small weighing scale nearby. The right stall, covered in red cloth, shows stacked baskets of oranges, bananas, apples and other produce. No people are visible, and the scene shows an ordinary market setting with lush greenery at the edges.

A rotated photograph of offerings arranged on a striped multicoloured woven cloth. Baskets hold red apples and pomegranates, dark purple jamun-like berries, green grapes, pink flower petals, green limes, and oranges. Along the right edge, a person in white dhoti and a shawl bends over the offerings, and another figure in red and orange clothing with beaded necklaces is partly visible, apparently preparing the offerings.

Outdoor book stall under a thatched and cloth-draped canopy with a yellow and magenta heart-patterned valance. White-draped tables display stacks of books and booklets, with cardboard boxes stored behind. Several men and a woman in white clothes stand at the tables handing out or selling books, while a crowd of visitors in shirts, including a boy in red, queues along the right side on grass beside trees. The scene reads as a bookselling stall at a gathering, with no visible readable publisher name on the books.

December 31 2009

January 06 2012

August 12 2012

A road procession moves toward the camera on a concrete path beside a forested hillside. Five or six saffron-robed sadhus walk in a loose line, several holding tall staffs or tridents; the front figures wear orange shawls and garlands. Smoke rises from a fire at a covered roadside shelter with a red-draped cart. In the foreground, leaf plates hold fruit and offerings, and a woman in a red patterned shawl stands at right. a person's presence cannot be confirmed from appearance, so the walking figures are described by role only.

A market display of fresh vegetables with no people visible. In the foreground, a halved orange pumpkin with bright yellow flesh and seeds sits beside a second pumpkin slice. A steel pot holds sliced white and cream-coloured vegetables, possibly bottle gourd or similar. A woven basket of ripe red tomatoes sits at the upper left, with a head of cauliflower and green leafy vegetables behind. Fresh coriander leaves are at the left, with red carrots, green chillies, green beans and purple brinjals (eggplants) arranged on a red tray at the bottom.

November 05 2006

Rows of fruit offerings arranged on a long cloth-covered table over a floor of red tiles. Each offering sits on a shallow leaf-shaped dish wrapped in clear plastic, holding bananas, red apples, orange-yellow mangoes or plums, and clusters of dark purple grapes. The cloth beneath has striped borders in red, yellow and blue. No people are visible in the frame. Partial edges of a white garment appear at the far right corner.

Close-up photograph of a table laid with heaped mounds of powdered and dried ingredients on metal plates. Piles of bright red, yellow-orange, turmeric-yellow and pale beige powders sit beside plates of dark whole peppercorn-like seeds, woody root or bark pieces, dried curled shavings, and dried sliced roots. No people are visible. The scene matches an ayurvedic herbal preparation setting, with the ingredients laid out ready for processing.

Outdoor ritual ground with a dirt floor and red boundary wall behind. Several square brick fire pits or homa kundas stand in an open yard, each ringed with yellow-brick edging and decorated with clusters of small pots and coconut-like offerings wrapped in white cloth, with green leaves beneath. White-draped tables hold fruit, pots and brass vessels. Around them, men wearing white dhotis and bare upper bodies sit or stand, and women in orange-red saris and white garments attend the rites. A shaved-headed man in white walks along the back path. The scene is a homa or puja setup in progress.