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May 05 20122012-05-05May 05 20122012-05-05A photograph of a ritual arati in an indoor hall with dark red curtains behind. A man in an orange dhoti and orange shawl, with white tilak on his forehead and arm bands, raises a brass multi-wick oil lamp with a visible flame. Beside him a man in a white dhoti with a golden border and a rudraksha mala sits with hands folded in namaste. On the right a woman in an orange sari with a red border rings a handbell and sits before a microphone. Brass and microphone stands are visible.2015-05-05April 01 20132013-04-01December 19 20102010-12-19 +1 copiesOctober 14 20122012-10-14A man in an orange-red shawl and matching robe stands in smoky haze, holding a lit oil lamp in his left hand and a silver handbell in his right while he smiles with eyes lowered. He wears a white horizontal tilak with a red dot on his forehead, a gold necklace and a rudraksha mala with a gold-mesh pendant, and the shawl bears dark printed motifs. Behind him, seated devotees in orange clothing watch, including a woman on the left holding a small object; a second person in a headscarf stands farther back. The scene suggests an aarti or lamp-offering ritual.2012-09-05August 22 20062006-08-22A standing man in an orange sannyasi cloth wrapped around his waist and draped over one shoulder, bare-chested, with matted dreadlocks tied under a patterned headband, holds aloft a tiered silver aarti lamp with multiple lit oil lamps. A rudraksha mala hangs at his neck and wrists. Seated devotees fill the hall in red chairs and on orange floor mats, many in white and orange clothing. In the foreground, a silver bell rests on a striped cloth-covered table. Red drapes and a golden framed image appear behind, and a few devotees hold cloth bags printed with a lotus-like emblem.2018-01-01December 26 20082008-12-26A photograph of a ritual scene with three men seated on the floor in a hall. The nearest man in the foreground wears a white dhoti with a red border and holds a small brass oil lamp with a flame. Behind him, a bald man in a saffron-orange robe lifts a lit brass lamp and a burning wick, with smoke rising. A third man in a saffron robe sits further back, partly hidden, holding a lit lamp toward the group. On a red tray in the lower left are brass plates, a small brass lamp and a brass vessel. Blurred figures in orange and red clothing sit in the background, with warm lights and a laptop on a blue table at left.2011-01-21A photograph of a shaved-headed man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala holding a brass multi-flame aarti lamp aloft with both hands, flames rising before his face. Behind him several people in orange and white ritual clothes stand with palms pressed together in anjali, some with white tripundra markings on their foreheads, and a red curtain forms the backdrop. The lamp is an aarti performed as worship. The man's appearance does not clearly match the description of a distinctive presenter with several qualifying cues, so his identity is not established.2013-06-18