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A night-time photograph of a ritual event. A young man with long dark hair, bare-chested and wearing a white dhoti with a yellow border, stands with a rudraksha mala and a gold armlet, touching his ear with one hand while another man holds a microphone toward him. White ash horizontal stripes are painted on the chests and arms of the bare-chested participants. Beside them, a man in an orange-red garment with a decorated bead necklace and a pendant stands with a white tilak on his forehead. Blurred figures and a gold ornamental pillar appear in the background.

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A night-time outdoor ritual photograph with smoky dark background. A shirtless young man in white dhoti with white horizontal body stripes and forehead marks, wearing a saffron-orange rudraksha-style bead mala, looks downward with his hand on his shoulder. Beside him a woman in an orange-red saffron sari with long dark hair in a high bun, wearing a dark wooden rudraksha mala and a pendant, holds a handheld microphone toward him. Partially visible at left, a person in a purple head wrap and another in yellow cloth stand near the stage.2016-12-02A man with long dark hair tied back and a white horizontal line on his forehead stands centre-frame, bare-chested, with white stripes painted on his shoulder and upper arm. He wears a thick orange-brown beaded necklace and dark rudraksha-style beads, plus wristbands and beaded bracelets, and holds a microphone with his hand near his face while speaking. On the right, a person in an orange-red garment with long braided hair holds the microphone toward him. In the blurred background at left, another man in a purple head wrap sits, and a dark blue smoky backdrop fills the rest of the stage.2016-12-02March 06 20162016-03-06 +1 copiesOutdoor chanting scene at a temple-style stone platform. Three young men in front sit cross-legged, bare-chested and wearing orange dhotis, with white and red tilak lines on their foreheads and white ash stripes on their arms and chests. Two of them hold black handheld microphones and sing; the front-centre singer has eyes closed. The man on the right wears layered rudraksha malas and beaded bracelets. Behind them, a girl in an orange garment and other devotees in white and orange sit among dark stone pillars and a brass kalasha-style vessel.2016-10-31Photo of several young men seated outdoors chanting into handheld microphones, bare-chested with white ash markings on their arms, chests and foreheads and red tilaka on the forehead. They wear saffron-orange cloths, rudraksha and bead malas, and gold-toned bead necklaces. The foreground man on the left has long dreadlocked hair and an orange shawl with a gold pendant, while the central man has short hair with a headband. Their faces are turned toward the microphones.2016-12-19Three young people sit cross-legged on orange cloth at an outdoor event, singing into handheld microphones on stands. The front figure, bare-chested with a rudraksha mala and beaded bracelets, has a long braided hairstyle and white and red markings on his forehead and body. The two singers beside him wear orange garments, beads and bracelets, with white forehead markings. Behind them a seated person in orange and others in white and blue stand on stone steps lined with dark pillars and brass pots.2016-10-31 +1 copiesNovember 11 20162016-11-11 +1 copiesDecember 19 20162016-12-19May 28 20172017-05-28October 31 20162016-10-31July 08 20172017-07-08May 08 20172017-05-08