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April 04 2018

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A photograph of a ritual in a dim room with a red curtain at left. A bare-chested man with dark hair tied up and beaded bracelets on his wrist holds a lit oil lamp or camphor flame high with his right arm, gazing upward. Beside him stands a large painted deity murti with a red and white face, a tilak and a silver crown decorated with marigold garlands, a purple flower garland at right, and a smaller bronze figure in the background. An air conditioning unit is visible on the wall.2018-04-04A young man in orange saffron cloth and a dark wrapped turban performs aarti before a decorated deity murti. He holds a brass aarti lamp with a flame in one hand and a handbell in the other. His bare upper body shows beaded bracelets and armlets, and he wears rudraksha malas around his neck. Behind him, the deity murti is adorned with garlands of pink, yellow and white flowers on a silver pedestal. The setting is a temple-style shrine in a plain room.2018-04-18April 21 20182018-04-21April 18 20182018-04-18A photo of a bare-chested man in an orange saffron shawl performing aarti with a flaming multi-wick brass lamp held in his right hand. He wears a long swept-back dark braided top-knot, a red tilak on his forehead, rudraksha mala beads around his neck and a beaded bracelet on his wrist, with white ash stripes on his upper arm. Behind him stands a bronze deity murti with an ornate crown.2018-04-21May 18 20192019-05-18May 18 20192019-05-18December 22 20172017-12-22A bare-chested priest in rust-orange dhoti performs aarti, holding a lit camphor flame on a metal lamp stand in his right hand and a small handbell in his left. He wears a dark dreadlocked turban, a red tilak on his forehead, white ash markings on his arms and chest, and layered rudraksha malas with gold bell-shaped ornaments. Blurred seated devotees in saffron and orange robes fill the background.2019-05-18December 31 20182018-12-31October 10 20162016-10-10A bare-chested man with a dark rolled turban and a red tilak on his forehead performs aarti, holding a silver lamp with a lit flame aloft in his right hand. He wears layered rudraksha malas, a heavy ceremonial gold necklace and beaded bracelets, with white ash markings on his arms and chest and a rust-coloured dhoti. Behind him a wooden door, a wall with small framed pictures and a framed photo collage are visible, and several seated devotees in white and orange clothes with white forehead markings sit in the lower right and background. The man's appearance with distinctive adornments, turban and rudraksha matches the page's reference to a person, though the appearance is uncertain.2019-05-18