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Night photograph of an orange and yellow tour bus parked on a city street in front of a State Bank of India signboard and an iWay broadband internet cafe. A person in a full orange robe with long dark hair stands in the open bus doorway holding a tall metal staff, with light spilling from inside the bus. Four men in jackets and work clothes stand on the pavement beside the door, one wearing a grey wrap over his head. Film posters are pasted on the wall at left.

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May 22 20062006-05-22Night photograph of a group walking along a narrow street in Varanasi, past a parked white coach bus with blue stripes and a red tail light. In the centre, a long-haired man in an orange-saffron robe with a red tilak on his forehead walks forward, looking up and to the side. Beside and behind him, several people follow: a woman in a white shawl with glasses and a light blue top, a man in a grey hooded jacket, and a bearded man in a grey windbreaker and white dhoti. On the left, a man in a brown sweater with an orange scarf and white dhoti walks with arms folded, and a man in a blue-and-grey jacket walks nearby. Shop signs with Hindi lettering line the street.A photograph taken at dusk at the foot of a bus doorway. In the centre a man in a flowing saffron-orange robe and an orange turban stands on the road, holding a silver trident upright with both hands raised above his head. Behind him, several devotees in mixed clothing, including a figure in a blue jacket with a backpack and a woman in orange and yellow, wait near the bus. The bus steps are in the foreground with a metal checker-plate floor. Red-painted building walls appear in the background.A photograph of an orange bus at a roadside stop. A person in a red top climbs up the bus door step, while a man in a saffron-orange shawl over a white kurta stands beside the open door holding a water bottle. Another man in grey clothing is partly visible at the right edge. Roadside stalls and a clear sky sit behind the bus, with the bus lettering 'LE' visible on its lower panel.2006-01-09A street scene in a busy Indian town. In the centre, a figure with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron robe and a beaded rudraksha mala, walking along the roadside past a white bus and parked vehicles. Beside them, a man in a checked grey shirt holds a small lit oil lamp or offering in his hands. Shopfronts, signboards and pedestrians line the street behind them.2005-05-25June 16 2004 - Rishikesh-Guptakashi-Uttarkashi2004-06-16A man with long, swept-back dark hair wears a saffron-orange shawl wrapped over his shoulders and draped to the knees, leaving his arms and chest bare, and walks barefoot on asphalt beside a white coach bus with blue stripes. He holds a small metal implement in one hand while his eyes are closed and his face is lifted. Another person with a video camera stands at the right edge, and a red-capped passenger is visible through a bus window. Scattered paper litter lies on the road. The distinctive long hair, saffron wrap and bare-chested attire are appearance cues matching the Swamiji candidate, so this is a probable Swamiji (probable) figure walking in the open.2006-05-22June 01 20062006-06-01May 22 20062006-05-22May 25 20052005-05-25 +1 copiesA street scene in an Indian town. A figure in saffron-orange robes and long dark hair walks along the roadside past a white minibus, with a man in a checked shirt standing by the bus door. Other saffron-clad companions follow behind. Shops, auto-rickshaws and pedestrians line the busy street, and a person on a motorbike rides in the background.2005-05-25Street photograph in an Indian city of a barefoot man in a long orange-saffron robe with long dark hair and a tilak on his forehead, holding a broken coconut half in one hand and reaching out with the other, on a roadside beside parked white coaches. Nearby, a man in white shirt and trousers carries a green coconut, and a woman in a white sari carries a red suitcase, walking past shuttered shops, a Honda sign and a Udipi restaurant. A breaking-coconut ritual is visible, matching the page's account of a yatra start.2006-05-22