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October 24 2006

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Crowded street scene during a procession in a small town, with many men and women in white and colourful saris, salwar and dhotis pressing around a central area. At the upper left, a framed portrait on a stand, garlanded with flowers, shows a figure in white head covering and purple robe with a star motif, labelled as a portrait. In the left foreground, a man in white dhoti and white shirt with a rudraksha-style necklace stands beside the portrait area. Several people are holding cameras or phones.2006-10-24A large outdoor crowd of villagers fills a dusty street in Pattanam, Tamil Nadu, pressing together during a procession. Most people wear white shirts and dhotis or saris in cream, red, pink and yellow; several women wear red and maroon saris with kumkum bindis and gold necklaces, and a bald older man in the foreground wears a white shirt. A young man in the lower left has a yellow tilak on his forehead. Behind them a blue-and-white banner hangs from a pole, showing a painted portrait of a figure in an orange turban and a Tamil caption. Tiled-roof houses, a banana plant and a bamboo flagpole line the background.2008-07-28A large dense crowd of devotees gathers outdoors under a clear sky with palm trees and a thatched hut behind them. Many men wear white shirts and white dhotis, and several wear orange or saffron shawls. Women in saris of orange, pink, green and purple stand among them, with some holding children. Several men at the front hold wooden poles or sticks aloft. One man in a white shirt wears a dark rudraksha-style mala around his neck near the lower right. A white banner with printed text hangs on a pole at the top of the frame, and a white vehicle is parked in the background.2006-11-13November 27 20122012-11-27October 24 20062006-10-24A dense outdoor crowd fills a tree-lined street in a town setting. Many men wear white dhotis and white shirts, several with white caps, while women wear saris in orange, pink, green and red with flowers in their hair. Market stalls with hanging signs and banners line the road, and a white car is visible in the background. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible among the crowd.2008-04-19A large outdoor crowd of men, women and children stands closely packed in a dirt-ground rural setting, with wooden poles and a small vehicle visible behind them. Many men wear white shirts and dhotis, while women wear bright saris in red, yellow, green and pink, and one man in the foreground wears an orange shirt. Some attendees hold up their hands or lean forward, and a few older men have grey hair. No identifiable presenter or a person figure is clearly visible among the people shown.2006-11-13Outdoor crowd of devotees gathered with palms pressed together in anjali mudra during a street gathering in front of a thatched-roof hut and a pink building. Two men in front wear white shirts and white dhotis, one with a lanyard-style necklace. Women wear saris in pink, yellow, light blue and white, and children stand in the foreground in bright shirts. A printed portrait of a man in an orange-red turban is pinned to a stand at left, and a small framed portrait sits on a red-draped altar ledge below it. Bamboo poles and a rope are visible at the upper left.A dense street crowd in a town lane in Tamil Nadu, India, with many women in colourful saris and salwar kameez and several men in white dhotis. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and saffron-orange shawl stands with his back to the camera, facing a throng of people reaching toward him. On the right a man in white with an orange shawl holds a brass or metal vessel aloft. Women wear bindis and bangles, and some have yellow turmeric marks. Shops, parked motorbikes, an auto-rickshaw and a bus line the street behind them.2006-10-23A dense outdoor crowd gathers beneath a white cloth canopy and a red decorated umbrella, with white flags and a colourful striped awning overhead. Near the centre, a bald man in a saffron-orange garment with a red-and-white cloth and a red-beaded necklace stands among the people, and a shaven-headed man in white dhoti with a sacred thread stands at the left edge. Many devotees in white shirts and dhotis, women in saris and flowers in their hair, and cameramen with equipment press close. A red-and-white floral wreath hangs on the canopy and rose petals lie on the cloth. The crowd fills the frame, with a parked white vehicle and a street visible behind.2011-05-17A crowded street scene in a South Indian town, shot from an elevated angle with a dense crowd of men and women gathered on the roadway beside tree-lined shops and parked motorcycles and auto-rickshaws. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis; one man in the foreground wears a white kurta and holds a small plate. Several devotees in the lower right have white vibhuti or tilak smeared on their foreheads. A woman at left wears a pink sari with a white flower garland in her hair, and a child is held at far left. A paler, blurred crowd presses toward the centre. A faint purple logo appears in the upper left corner.2006-10-24Outdoor village gathering under a striped awning with orange streamers and a flagpole, during an event with a crowd of devotees. In the foreground a woman in a yellow-green saree with a yellow blouse stands with hands clasped, and a man in a white shirt with an orange shawl stands at right. Behind them women in colourful sarees and men in white dhotis and shirts stand close together among mud-walled houses with thatched roofs. No a person appearance is clearly visible among the people shown.2009-08-03