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Outdoor crowd gathered under a canopy strung with multicoloured pennants and bunting at an open-air event with dry scrub trees and a distant hill behind. Many men wear white shirts and white caps, and a uniformed police officer in a khaki cap stands at left. A woman in a white sari and another in a cream top stand in the foreground, one carrying a small child. At right, a man in white raises a long pole topped with a bundle of coloured fabric and a garland. Loudspeakers sit on a platform at upper right.

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April 19 20082008-04-19A large outdoor crowd gathers under a long canopy of white tent cloth strung with triangular pennants in red, orange, purple, green and yellow, supported by wooden poles. Many men wear white shirts and white caps, and some hold long wooden staves or bamboo poles upright. In the foreground a man in a white shirt with a rudraksha-style cord looks upward, and a woman in a teal sari with a flower garland in her hair stands nearby. The setting appears to be an open-air ceremony with a dense audience under sunlight and trees beyond the tent.2008-04-19April 19 20082008-04-19Outdoor crowd gathered at a rural ceremony under a decorated canopy strung with colourful triangular bunting, with bamboo poles and a banana-leaf and banana-bunch decoration at right. Men in white shirts and white dhotis stand at a metal railing in the foreground, several with hands raised or pointing toward the stage. A uniformed police officer in khaki stands among the crowd. On the right, a man in a white shirt, white cap and white dhoti stands on a raised platform beside striped pillars, and a loudspeaker sits on a stand behind the crowd. Trees and a palm frame the sky. Dense crowd behind. Pictured figures are physical people, not portraits.2008-04-19July 27 20082008-07-27Outdoor photograph of a crowd of men in white shirts and white caps gathered around a woven bamboo and palm-frond enclosure during a ceremony. A large tent canopy with striped red, orange, yellow, purple and green pennant bunting shades the area, and banana stalks with green bananas are tied to its posts. Several men in white dhotis and shirts stand close together, some wearing caps, while a man in a dark uniform-style cap and a few people in orange clothing are visible at right. Speakers stand at left and trees and a blue sky frame the scene.2008-04-19April 19 20082008-04-19January 12 20072007-01-12A dense outdoor crowd gathers under a thatched palm-leaf canopy at a Tamil Nadu inauguration. Many men wear white shirts and white dhotis, while women in saris and flowers in their hair press forward. Tall colourful decorated poles with blue, orange and red patterned panels frame the scene. Several men in front reach forward with raised arms, and one man wears a rudraksha mala.2008-07-28Outdoor crowd gathered under a long white canopy strung with multicoloured bunting and banners, supported by bamboo poles, at a ground with dry earth and scrubby trees behind. Many men in white shirts and white caps stand and walk through the crowd, a uniformed police officer in a peaked cap is at left, and women in saris of pink, red and orange sit and stand among folding chairs. Some people wear orange saffron-coloured garments.2008-04-19A large outdoor crowd sits and stands under a canopy of red, orange and green patterned tent cloth at a ceremony. Women in saris of pink, green, blue, purple, red and yellow fill the front rows, many with gold necklaces and some with hands folded in prayer. Men in white shirts and dhotis stand and sit along the right and in the back. Strings of green leaves and small blue and white pennants hang from the tent poles. Blue metal poles support the canopy, and a small child in yellow sits near the bottom center. No specific ritual is clearly visible.2007-08-17A large outdoor event under a striped canopy with green, red and gold-wrapped poles. Many devotees sit on yellow mats and red plastic chairs, mostly men in white shirts and white dhotis, with women in saris in red, yellow and orange. Several men stand in the foreground, one with a lanyard, and two photographers with cameras film the crowd near the centre right. Loudspeaker boxes sit at the left. The scene resembles an ashram gathering, with no clearly identifiable figure at a raised seat visible.2006-11-24