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Outdoor construction site beside a row of single-storey buildings with a corrugated roof and red-painted posts. Several workers stand among piles of red earth, grey cinder blocks and large grey stone slabs. Two men on the left wear red caps and checked lungis, one in a white shirt, and a worker in a white shirt stands on a low wall of stacked blocks. A blue plastic drum sits in the middle, and a palm frond lies on the left. Laundry hangs from a line on the right porch, and green trees and a satellite dish appear in the background. No ritual or ceremony is visible, and no person is identifiable as a person.

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A photograph of an outdoor construction site beside a rural ashram-style building with a corrugated roof supported by red posts and laundry hanging on a line. Concrete blocks are stacked in a long low wall along the right, with piles of loose red-brown earth and scattered grey stone blocks in the foreground. A blue plastic drum stands near the centre. Several men in white shirts, lungis and a red-capped worker stand or work among the blocks under a palm tree on the left, with green trees and a small white building behind them.2006-10-03A construction site at Adikailaasa with workers building a stone-faced low wall and block walls on bare red earth. A man in a white shirt, white dhoti and green head cloth shovels near the granite-stone foundation, while another man crouches to work on the wall at right. Other workers stand among heaps of sand and gravel and loose granite blocks, with a blue plastic drum and parked trucks in the background under a cloudy sky.2006-10-29December 12 20062006-12-12 +1 copiesA construction site with a dirt track between two low walls, one of grey stone block and one of concrete block. Several workers, some in saffron or orange clothing and others in plain dress, carry or stack stone blocks and rubble. Coconut palms and trees stand behind the walls. Piles of sand, rubble and red bricks lie on the ground. No speaker or deity is visible.2008-02-15A construction site photograph of a trench being dug and lined with flat grey stones along a dirt ground. Several workers in white clothes are scattered across the site, some bending over the trench and others carrying bricks or tools. A woman in a white sari with an orange border walks along the right side past piles of excavated soil. Stacks of concrete blocks, a pile of pipes and a blue tarpaulin sheet are visible near a small building, with trees and palms in the background under a cloudy sky. +1 copiesOctober 15 20092009-10-15October 07 20062006-10-07A construction site on bare reddish-brown earth where workers lay stone. In the foreground a man in a checked shirt and dark trousers bends over a trench lined with grey dressed stone blocks, setting a block into place. Scattered grey stone slabs lie across the excavated soil. Behind them, several workers in white dhotis and light shirts carry baskets and tend stacked grey stone blocks along low walls. Green trees, palms and a blue tarpaulin frame the open yard under an overcast sky. +1 copiesA construction site photographed from above a concrete ledge. A long trench runs down the middle, lined with stacked grey flat stones and a laid rubble channel, with brick walls on either side. Mounds of reddish-brown excavated soil sit beside the trench, and loose stones and bricks are scattered across the bare ground. Several workers in light clothing stand and crouch near a stacked block of cement blocks on the left and along the trench edges. Trees and a palm line the background, with a blue tarpaulin-covered structure and a cloudy sky above. +1 copiesA construction scene on a dirt path beside a white-walled building with a green corrugated roof, surrounded by green trees and shrubs. Several workers are digging and laying stones in a trench of red earth. One worker in a white shirt and red head cloth crouches at left, a man in a white shirt and checked lunghi bends over stones at centre, and a woman in a white blouse and blue-green skirt stands at right. Another worker in a green shirt and tan cap stands behind them, and a woman in a pink-trimmed sari sits at right. A concrete slab lies in the foreground beside piles of red soil and scattered rocks, with a pink bucket at left.2006-10-29 +1 copiesOutdoor photograph of a temple construction site on bare reddish-brown earth. Trenches have been dug for a foundation, and a worker in a white shirt and dark shorts stands on a mound of excavated soil beside a pile of rough stones. Several people stand near the trench edge, including a figure in a plain sari and a group in orange and white clothing; a person in a white dhoti walks across the open ground. Tall palm trees, leafy trees and low shrubs line the site under an overcast sky, with a red-and-white painted border wall at left.2006-10-25Outdoor construction site on bare red earth with heaps of dirt, scattered grey stone blocks and rubble, and a partly built low wall of concrete blocks. A blue dump truck with a yellow cab stands at the back, and workers in light clothing handle blocks and debris. A few people are visible: a man in white shirt and dark trousers crouching by a block wall at left, a man in a white shirt standing at far left, a worker on the truck bed, and figures in bright saris near the red-and-white buildings on the right. Trees, palms and a clear sky frame the scene, with a bird in flight at top centre.2009-10-15