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Night-time street photograph of a dense crowd of men gathered around a silver-grey SUV with its door open. In the centre, a tall figure in a saffron-orange shawl and orange head wrap stands beside the vehicle, with a garland of yellow flowers draped near the car. Many men in white shirts and dhotis surround him, while others in checked and green shirts press in from the right. A uniformed police officer stands at the left edge, and a video camera on a stand is visible in the foreground. A large white bus with a lit destination board and other vehicles are parked behind the crowd, against a red-and-white painted wall.

January 02 2008

Night photograph of a crowd at a street outside a temple area. A silver car is in the foreground, its driver in a white shirt at the wheel. Inside the car, a person with long dark hair wears a saffron-orange robe and is seated in the passenger position, with another saffron-robed figure beside. Outside the open door, saffron-clad sannyasis and a man in a red shirt lean in, while a man in white shirt and trousers stands near the door. Uniformed police officers in khaki and a dark-uniformed officer with a cap are nearby, and many men in white and orange surround the vehicle.

Outdoor photo of a crowd on a tree-lined road before green hills. At centre, a man in orange saffron robes and an orange turban stands with a thick white-and-pink flower garland and a rudraksha-style bead mala, while others press close. A uniformed police officer in khaki cap stands in the foreground beside a silver SUV dusted with rose petals and marigold petals. Men in white shirts and orange-clad attendants surround him, and devotees line the road behind. A banana leaf and a coconut sit in the lower foreground.

January 01 2007

July 16 2006

January 12 2007

2007-01-12 +2 copies

Night photograph of a crowded outdoor festival scene with many devotees pressing forward. In the centre, a bald, bespectacled man in an orange and saffron turban and orange shawl, wearing a white garland of flowers, stands with hands folded in a namaste greeting beside brass oil lamps lit on the ground. Several uniformed police officers in khaki stand nearby. Other people wear white kurtas, saris in red, orange and blue, and one man in a white dhoti. A tall rusted metal pole with a coiled wire wrap rises in the foreground beside a large yellow floral canopy. An orange flag with a white Om symbol hangs at the lower right. Green lights illuminate the trees above, and a banner with a portrait hangs in the background.

Night street scene at a crowded roadside where a black SUV with a banner reading NITHYANANDAM across its windscreen is pushing through a dense crowd of mostly men in white shirts, pastel checked shirts and dhotis. Several men in saffron-orange robes stand near the vehicle, one bare-chested with a saffron cloth draped over his shoulder, reaching toward the car as devotees press in. Headlights glow in the dark, and two-storey white houses and a small roadside stall line the street.

2013-06-23 +1 copies

June 23 2014

2014-06-23 +1 copies

A crowded temple corridor with stone pillars and a dense crowd of men and women in white dhotis and orange shawls, many with white and red forehead markings. In the centre, a smiling man wearing an orange turban and gold-trimmed orange robe with a rudraksha-style mala walks through the crowd; a bearded man with long hair in an orange shawl walks beside him. In the foreground a cameraman films, and a uniformed official in a khaki cap stands at right. A white-clad man stands on a pillar base in the background.