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January 16 2007

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Outdoor ritual offering on a brown earthen ground decorated with white kolam lines. A round stainless steel plate holds bananas, cooked rice, jaggery pieces and white flour or powder. Banana leaves with rice portions and halved coconuts sit at the top, and a whole coconut lies to the left. A small brass oil lamp with a bright flame burns in the lower left, beside a brass bell and incense sticks at the lower right. No people are visible.2006-01-15January 16 20072007-01-16January 16 20072007-01-16 +1 copiesA photograph of an outdoor Pongal-style offering on bare earth decorated with white rangoli kolam lines. A small flame burns on a brass lamp beside a brass kalasha-like pot, with brass oil lamps and incense sticks. Banana leaves hold cooked white rice, coconut halves and flower offerings, and two metal plates hold bananas, rice and flowers. Sugarcane stalks lie across the ground. Five to six people stand at the top edge wearing white dhotis and white kurtas, with orange shawls and one woman in a sari, with some barefoot. Their faces are cropped out and no person is clearly identifiable.2006-01-15A photo of a floor offering set-up on bare earth for Pongal. Three banana leaves hold mounds of white rice topped with yellow-brown sweet, ringed with sliced bananas. A small leaf with a flower and a yellow offering sits in front. Behind them are a brass oil lamp and a brass bowl of ash. White chalk kolam drawings decorate the ground, including a sun, a pot-shaped figure and lines. Bottom-right, two people are partly visible in white dhotis with gold borders, barefoot. Chalk writing reads PONGAL and NITHYANANDA.2008-01-16A photo of a floor-level puja offering arrangement on a dark red-speckled granite floor. Brass plates and bowls hold rice in a steel pot, white rock sugar crystals, a bowl of pale grains, cut yellow and orange fruits, bananas, a pineapple and whole coconuts, along with incense sticks and two small green limes on a brass tray. A lit oil lamp and brass lamp stands sit in the background beside a white cloth. No people are visible, only the offerings and their ritual setup.Ground-level puja arrangement on bare earth beside colourful kolam chalk designs. A brass plate holds bunches of bananas, two halved coconuts, white rope tied with red threads, and a small brass pot of red and white petals. A brass lamp stand and a small terracotta pot sit nearby, with a fresh mound of soil decorated with white and red flowers and green leaves. No people are visible, and an oil lamp flame is seen at the right edge.2018-01-15January 14 20172017-01-14January 14 20172017-01-14A photograph of an outdoor Pongal-style ritual on bare earth. In the foreground a woman with long loose black hair, wearing an orange saree with a red border, kneels and places bananas and a banana leaf on a white kolam drawing made with rice flour. Nearby sit a silver plate of cooked rice, a metal pot, a plate of flowers and fruit, brass lamps and two coconuts. Behind them a crowd of people stand in white dhotis and white garments, with a few in orange and blue. Two boys sit on a white plastic chair at left. The white kolam designs and Tamil lettering are drawn on the ground around the offerings.2006-01-15 +1 copiesPhoto 11728743 +1 copiesA clay pot of milk boiling over an open flame on a paved brick floor, as in a Pongal rice-cooking offering. The pot sits on a stone base with yellow-painted sides, wrapped with green leaves and sugarcane stalks. A wooden stirring stick rests in the milk, and the fire flickers beside it. Brass bowls holding grains, turmeric and a white ingredient lie on the right, with a stainless steel vessel and a kolam design drawn in white powder on the ground. No people are visible.2017-01-14