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2015-July-30

2015-July-30

Outdoor evening gathering of devotees in white clothes with red lanyards, hands pressed in namaste. In the centre, a man with hands raised overhead wears a rust-red robe with gold-yellow bands and a dark rudraksha mala around his neck; he appears to be leading a practice. Around him stand several men and women in white kurtas and salwar, some in lavender-patterned white, with trees and red pillars in the dark background.

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Night photograph of a devotional gathering in dark surroundings. In the centre, a man with a shaved head wearing a white headband stands in a maroon robe with wide gold bands at the waist, a heavy gold necklace and a textured brown-maroon shawl, his arms partly extended as he sings or chants. To his left, a woman in an orange-red sari with glasses and a rudraksha mala presses her palms together in anjali, beside another woman in maroon-and-gold robes doing the same. Behind them, several men in white dhotis and kurtas with rudraksha malas, some with hands folded, stand in a crowd lit faintly by the surrounding darkness. This appears to be a satsang or devotional moment with people in folded-hand greeting.

Outdoor evening gathering of devotees in white ritual clothing standing with palms joined in namaskar. In the centre foreground, a man with short dark hair wears a rust-red sannyasi-style wrap with gold-yellow bands and a dark rudraksha-style mala, arms raised with hands clasped above his head. Around him, people in white kurtas, dupattas and white trousers hold their hands in anjali, some wearing red-and-white lanyards. Dark trees and a red pillar form the background, with orange cloth on the ground in the lower left.

2015-02-24 +1 copies

A man in saffron-orange robes and a matching orange turban stands with palms pressed together in anjali mudra, eyes closed, at an outdoor evening gathering. He wears a large multicoloured garland of orange marigolds, white flowers, red and blue beads and green leaves, with a yellow sash over the robes. Behind him a crowd of devotees in white dhotis and kurtas, a woman in a green sari, and others in orange and red stand with hands folded. The ground has a decorative rangoli design and a red pole and hoops stand in the background at night.

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A photograph of a night-time ritual gathering in an open outdoor courtyard with a dark sky and string lights overhead. A shaved-headed man in a saffron-orange robe with a golden-yellow border and a rudraksha mala stands at the center, facing away, receiving a folded orange-and-red cloth offering from a man in a white dhoti with a red shawl. Behind them, devotees in white dhotis and red shawls stand with hands folded in anjali, and women in saris press palms together. Several participants have white vibhuti and tripundra markings on their foreheads. On the right, a dark stone deity murti with a garland stands on a red-tiled dais. The crowd of roughly twenty people stands in a loose line around the courtyard.