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September 16 2016

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A woman in an orange sari with gold border and a rudraksha mala stands in a golden-walled kitchen, arranging a banana leaf over a clay pot with white wavy stripes on a stove where a flame flickers under a black cooking vessel. Brass and copper pots line shelves behind her, and orange bowls and green leaves sit on the counter.2016-09-16September 16 20162016-09-16A woman in an orange sari with gold border and a long rudraksha mala stirs a clay pot cooking over a flame, holding a wooden ladle and a green banana leaf with food. She wears a red bindi, white tilak and a small microphone headset. Behind her are brass vessels and clay pots on shelves. At left, a framed portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" is garlanded with yellow and red flowers. Red and yellow bowls with prepared food sit on the counter.2016-09-16A dark metal pot of boiling milk sits on a small clay stove built from stacked yellow-ochre bricks, with flames licking beneath it and steam rising. Two bricks are dusted with turmeric and white powder, and one has a white painted circle. Behind the stove a person in orange-red robes stirs with a long ladle and holds a brass vessel, and a second robed figure is partly visible at the top. The setting is an outdoor ground of sandy earth, consistent with a Pongal cooking ritual.2019-01-16September 16 20162016-09-16January 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15A large round bronze vessel of burning fire on a striped red, green and pink cloth, a homa or fire offering. A person in a maroon-red garment with a wrap and a beaded necklace holds a bundle of dried stalks, dropping dark herbal material into flames that rise high from the pan. Smoke drifts upward.2017-10-08A close photograph of a clay pot cooking over a brick stove. The orange-glazed pot holds a pale yellow porridge-like mixture, and a hand at the top stirs it with a wooden ladle. The pot is decorated with white horizontal stripes, a red dot, and leaves and tubers tied around its rim.2016-01-16A smiling woman in an orange sari with a wide gold border stands at a clay stove cooking flatbread on a wooden-handled spatula over a dark pan. She wears a rudraksha mala, white vertical tilaka and a red bindi, and gestures with her left hand. Behind her are shelves of brass and copper vessels, woven baskets, clay pots and a painted deity mural. A banana leaf and small bowls sit on the counter.2016-09-16January 15 20162016-01-15January 15 20162016-01-15