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A large orange and yellow street banner hangs on a pole in front of a multi-storey building in a busy town street. The banner carries three portrait photographs at the top: a smiling woman with long dark hair, and two men wearing orange turbans, one with a white beard. Below is a red and black Kannada headline above a crowd photograph of a large gathering of people. Tiger emblems sit beside the portraits. Bicycles, a yellow umbrella, a shop shutter, and passersby in a yellow shirt are visible at street level, with an orange bunting strip hanging from the building's upper edge.

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A photograph of a large red and orange roadside banner on a street with an old wooden-balconied building and a concrete structure beside it. The banner carries Kannada headline text for a Hindu gathering and a row of portrait photos of men in saffron and white clothing, with a central illustration of a deity figure holding a bow. A man in white shirt stands at left holding a phone to his ear, partly visible.2011-05-24A photograph of a street scene with a large red and orange banner mounted on poles beside a roadside wall and trees. The banner reads a Kannada headline announcing a Hindu gathering, with a row of portrait photos of men in the upper area and a central figure in an orange turban and orange robes. Smaller posters with photos and text sit to the right, and a small orange flag flies above the banner. Several portraits appear on the banner but no physical people are standing in the scene.2011-05-24October 05 20122012-10-05January 01 20032003-01-01October 02 20122012-10-02A large outdoor Hindu gathering on a red-draped stage in Jamkhandi, with a banner reading Swabhimana Hindu Samavesha and Sri Rama Sene. The banner shows Krishna driving a white horse chariot with Arjuna. Seated on the stage in rows are saffron and orange-robed sadhus and priests, several in saffron turbans, with white-clad figures among them, and a ritual setup with a decorated kalasha-style pot and floral garlands on white-covered tables. Dense crowds in white and light clothing fill the ground in front, with video cameras and camera operators at the stage edge. a person's presence is not clearly identifiable from appearance.2011-05-24Outdoor street photo of a padayatra procession on a roadside. A man in a white shirt, brown trousers and a rudraksha mala holds one end of a large saffron-orange banner with a framed portrait of a smiling man wearing an orange turban and red bindi, with Kannada text. Behind him, a man in white holds a smaller placard showing a similar orange-turbaned portrait. Other marchers in white shirts and orange-and-blue flags stand nearby; a yellow dump truck and white vehicles are on the left. Two or three other banners with orange portraits are visible on the right edge.2010-07-24A street procession of people in white ritual clothes and orange-saffron flags walks past a roadside temple entrance. The central subject is a long orange banner carried by a young man in white shirt and white dhoti; the banner shows a printed portrait of a smiling bald man in an orange turban and orange robes, with Kannada text in red and white. Behind it, uniformed police or security officers in khaki stand at the roadside. Other marchers carry orange flags with a blue emblem, and a small framed portrait is held aloft at upper right. Some marchers wear garlands and lanyards. The road is paved and the scene is outdoors.2010-07-24October 02 20122012-10-02A large outdoor public gathering under a red and gold patterned canopy supported by bamboo poles. Several saffron-robed sannyasis sit on a raised mat at the front, one with a saffron turban and rudraksha mala, another with a long white beard and bare feet, while white-clad men sit nearby. Yellow and red flags hang at the left and a crowd of onlookers, many in white, fills the foreground and background. Green and orange pots are arranged along the back. A banner behind them reads in Kannada and shows a framed portrait. A cameraman films the scene at right.2007-02-19A large outdoor stage with a red skirted dais and white floral garlands along its edge hosts a seated row of saffron-clad priests and sadhus, many wearing orange turbans or head cloths, some with white shawls. Behind them a long red-and-white banner shows Krishna and Arjuna in a golden chariot drawn by white horses, with Kannada and Devanagari-style lettering. A white-robed attendant stands at left beside a ganesha figure on a white table, and cameras on tripods film the stage from the foreground. A dense crowd of people fills the lower foreground and the grounds in front of the stage under trees and saffron flags. Whether a saffron-robed figure in the centre is a person cannot be determined from appearance alone.2011-05-24A large outdoor crowd gathers in front of a red-and-cream colonial-style building with a pink banner strung between poles under a striped canopy. Many men wear white shirts and dhotis, and numerous people wear saffron and orange turbans or headwear. Uniformed police officers in khaki and green helmets stand in the foreground holding the line. Pink flags and a multicoloured umbrella are visible at the right. The banner carries Kannada script and the date 20-2-2007. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance cues in this view.2007-02-20