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A crowd gathers closely around an open silver car door at a temple entrance with a blue-and-pink gopuram-style facade and a red banner. A figure in a saffron-orange robe with long dark hair steps toward the car, hand extended toward the door, while people around them press forward. Several women in white or cream saris wear jasmine garlands in their hair, and a man in a white shirt with folded hands greets the person. An orange flag is raised at left, and uniformed police stand in the background among the onlookers.

Outdoor photograph of a crowd of men in white dhotis and white shirts pressing around a silver car with its door open. In the foreground a figure in an orange-saffron turban and orange robe, with long dark hair, bends forward at the car door while a man in a white shirt holds a white jasmine garland toward them. Many onlookers, some with raised hands, fill the street; a white gate and a building with a blue-and-white sign appear behind. a person in saffron turban and robe receiving a garland at a car door, with devotees in white around him.

2008-07-29 +1 copies

A photograph of a street-side welcome beside a white car. A woman in an orange sari with a long white and multicoloured garland stands with hands folded in namaskar. Around her, a man in white dhoti and shirt with an orange shawl bends forward, and a young man in orange robes kneels at the car door. Other devotees in white and saffron clothing and a woman in a yellow and pink sari stand nearby, several with hands joined, and a child sits on the ground in pink. Some hold small offerings and flowers. The scene is an outdoor devotional greeting on a dusty road in front of a building.

A crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts, many wearing rudraksha malas, surrounds a central figure in a saffron-orange robe who wears a pink flower garland and has a sandalwood tilak on the forehead. A red umbrella with colourful tasselled fringe is held overhead. On the left a man stands beside a silver vehicle, and a camera operator in an orange shawl with a rudraksha mala films the scene. Green trees and palm trees are in the background. The central figure has long dark hair and a saffron robe with a pink garland, consistent with the a person cues of long hair, saffron clothing and garland, though the identification is uncertain.

August 08 2009

Outdoor arrival at a house with a grey SUV parked at left. A figure in saffron-orange robes with long swept-back dark hair and a long white-and-red flower garland stands center, smiling, while a man in white clothes bends forward to touch or greet him. Another man in orange stands at left beside the car. A woman in a purple and gold sari with a long braid and flower garland, and a woman holding a small child in a gold-bordered sari, stand at right with hands folded in greeting. Several other people in white shirts and dhotis, and a man with a video camera, stand behind. A white concrete building, palm trees and a green field form the background.

July 17 2009

August 08 2009

Outdoor photo at a covered entrance with white columns and a grey minivan behind a crowd. A man with long, swept-back dark hair wears an orange saffron robe and a large garland of white flowers and red-and-yellow marigolds around his neck. Several men in white and cream shirts press close around him, one in a light beige shirt on the right, and a man in white with a lanyard on the left. A young girl in an orange top reaches toward the group with a bangled arm, while others stoop in the foreground. Trees and a lawn stand in the background.

A photo at a roadside gate where a person in orange saffron robes, with a gold necklace and tilaka-marked forehead, stands beside a silver car, reaching toward the open rear window. A man in white clothing with a yellow shawl holds a long wooden staff, and another in white holds a peacock-feather fan at the car window, where a person in white is seated. A garlanded coconut with white flowers and green leaves sits in the lower left foreground. A cameraman films the scene in the background, with vehicles and roadside shops visible.

A photograph of a man in saffron-orange robes and a matching orange turban, wearing a long rudraksha mala, stepping beside an open silver vehicle door while smiling. Two men in white shirts stand beside him, one holding the door and the other reaching toward it. Behind them a crowd of people, mostly in white, gathers along a tree-lined road with a white temple gateway and a parked white van.

2008-07-29 +1 copies

A dense crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis surrounds a dark car outside a blue-and-orange temple entrance with a small signboard. A woman in an orange-red sari and a white flower garland in her hair leans toward the car roof, and a bare-armed woman in a yellow sari with jasmine in her hair stands in the foreground. Palm trees, a string of small pennant flags and several temple spires stand behind the crowd on a sunny day.