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August 10 20172017-08-10Photograph of a close ritual moment in dim warm light. A bare-chested man with long dreadlocks, a leopard-print headwrap and a rudraksha mala stands on the right, his right hand pressed to the forehead of a younger man on the left. The younger man wears a white kurta, a rudraksha mala and an orange shawl, and holds his right palm raised in a gesture of reception. Behind them a brass kalasha-like vessel and a metal stand are faintly visible. Two people are visible.2017-08-10Two men stand face to face in a warm, dimly lit room with a dark red backdrop. On the right, a bearded man with long dark dreadlocked hair wears a red-orange cloth, a rudraksha mala necklace of brown beads, leopard-print cloth at the waist, and yellow paste markings on his forehead and upper arm. He raises his hand to the forehead of a bald man on the left, who wears a white embroidered kurta and a red shawl printed with script, holding his palms open in front of him. A tall metal staff with bells hangs at the right edge. Copyright text and a source credit are overlaid on the right side. Probable Swamiji in this image is the man with long hair, rudraksha beads and yellow markings, shown blessing the other man.2016-07-04July 04 20162016-07-04May 12 20172017-05-12July 04 20162016-07-04Photograph of two men in close, intimate contact in a warm-lit indoor setting with dark red drapery behind them. On the right, a long-haired man with a yellow-ochre horizontal tilak across his forehead, a wrap of deep red-orange cloth over his shoulder, a dense rudraksha mala necklace, and yellow ochre markings on his upper arm reaches out and rests his hand on the forehead of a man on the left. The man on the left wears a white kurta with a red-and-orange bordered shawl and a red thread bracelet, with a lanyard-style badge around his neck, and holds his hands in front of him in a receptive gesture. A metal staff with small bells hangs at the right edge beside brass fittings.2016-07-04A photograph of two men in close, intimate contact at an indoor event with a dark red draped backdrop. On the right, a long-haired man in a rust-orange wrap with a multi-strand rudraksha mala and a horizontal yellow-ochre tilak on his forehead and arm is raising his right hand to touch the forehead of a man on the left. That man wears a white shirt, a red-and-orange bordered shawl and a red lanyard badge, and holds his left hand up, palm open. A tall ornate golden staff with bells hangs at the right edge beside them.2016-07-04July 25 20172017-07-25July 26 20172017-07-26A photograph of a ceremony in which a bald man in white clothes with his hands pressed together in namaskar receives an orange saffron shawl printed with small patterned text, draped over his shoulders. A bare-chested figure with long dreadlocked hair and a brown rudraksha mala around his neck places his right hand on the man's forehead while holding the shawl's end. Behind them a cameraman films with a tripod-mounted camera, and other people in white and orange clothing stand nearby with an ornate carved stone wall and maroon drapery in the background. The bare-chested figure has distinctive long dreadlocks and rudraksha beads, and the page attributes a person to this event, but the appearance cues alone are not sufficient to confirm identity, so the candidate is marked unsure.2016-06-27Photograph of a ritual blessing. A bearded man with long dark hair, wearing a red-and-black patterned shawl over white kurta, kneels with palms pressed together while another man in a red-orange cloth, golden tilak on forehead, long dreadlocked hair and a rudraksha mala, places his right hand on the first man's forehead. A golden tilak mark is visible on his arm. Behind them a metal staff-like pole, a brass vessel and a hanging bell cluster with brass bells sit in a warm, dim room; a paper is held by an assistant in white. a person (long hair, rudraksha mala, saffron-orange cloth, gold tilak) performing a blessing on a devotee.2016-07-04