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A photograph of a shaved-headed, bespectacled older man seated among blurred participants during a ritual initiation. He is bare-chested with white sacred ash marks on his forehead and shoulders and a thin sacred cord across his chest. He holds a folded palm-leaf or sheet in both hands and reads from it with his head lowered. Several other bare-chested men sit in the background wearing white cloths and cords.

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February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22A photograph of a shaved-head, grey-haired man with white vertical tilak lines on his forehead and white sacred ash markings on his chest and shoulders, wearing thin wire-rimmed glasses. He is bare-chested, wearing a white sacred thread, and holds small bundled sticks in his hands while focusing downward, seemingly during a ritual. Behind and beside him, other bare-chested devotees seated in rows, also marked with white ash, appear blurred in a pink-walled hall during a Shiva Deeksha initiation.2017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22Close-up photo of a bare-chested older man with short grey hair, thin-rimmed glasses and a grey moustache, holding a small bundle of white and yellow ritual items, possibly sacred thread or cloth, in one hand. He wears a white cord across his shoulder and a dark pendant on a cord at his chest, with white ash marks on his forehead and body. Other bare-chested participants sit blurred in the background in a warm-toned hall.2017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22Photograph of a bare-chested man with short grey hair and rimless glasses seated in a ritual gathering, holding a small wooden implement and a folded leaf or cloth in his right hand. White vertical sacred ash marks streak his forehead and shoulders, and a white sacred thread with a rudraksha bead hangs around his neck. Behind and beside him, other bare-chested men in white ritual cloths sit in a hall with pink walls, blurred and absorbed in the ceremony. The image is consistent with a group initiation puja or deeksha setting.2017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22February 22 20172017-02-22