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Outdoor photo of a kabaddi-style contest on a sandy ground marked with white lines. In the foreground, men in black athletic shirts and trousers are locked in a tussle, one leaning forward with arms wrapped around another. Behind the court, seated and standing onlookers watch; on the right, several people in orange and saffron robes stand along the boundary, one bare-chested figure wears a red-orange cloth, and a figure in white with a sash stands near them. A small floodlight and a greenish shed sit at left under a tree-lined evening sky.

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A photograph of a sandy outdoor game ground marked with white boundary lines, where several men in black clothing wrestle and grapple in the middle while bystanders watch. A shaved-headed man in a black top leans forward with arms outstretched on the left, and another in a grey top is partly visible behind. Along the right and back, a large crowd of ashram residents in orange and saffron robes stands and watches, with a few onlookers in white and black seated at the left edge beneath trees and a green-roofed shed.2017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14Outdoor photo of a Krishna Janmashtami game in a sandy court marked with white lines. Several men in dark t-shirts and grey sleeveless tops are tangled together in a cluster at centre, pushing and grappling. Around the court, bystanders in black and grey clothes stand watching at left, and a row of men in saffron-orange robes, some bare-chested with rudraksha malas and one in white dhoti, stand at right. A green-roofed shed, trees and a red wall form the background.2017-08-14Outdoor photo of devotees playing a sand-pit wrestling game at Adikailash on Krishna Janmashtami. Two people in matching saffron-orange clothing grapple at the centre of a sandy ring, one bending low with arms locked. A crowd of roughly thirty people in orange, red and maroon garments and black t-shirts stands around the ring watching, some with hands on hips. A man in a white dhoti and white shawl with a rudraksha mala and ornate gold-toned necklace stands at the left edge of the crowd. Trees, a red boundary wall and a yellow building are behind them under an overcast sky.2017-08-14A photograph of an outdoor sandy ground under a corrugated metal roof, with a chain-link fence behind the crowd. In the foreground, several men in black clothes crouch and lean forward in a game-like stance, arms bent, facing a figure in plain saffron-orange robes standing with his back to the camera at right. Behind them, onlookers in orange and saffron garments and a few in white dhoti-style clothing watch closely, some with hands clasped or raised. A man in a white dhoti and red shawl stands among them. The figure in orange appears to be leading the activity. No readable text appears in the scene.2017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14Outdoor photo of a kabaddi-style game on a sandy ground at dusk. Several players in black t-shirts and dark shorts crouch and reach, while one player in orange clothing and a woman in orange lunges between them. A large crowd of spectators stands around the ring, many in orange robes, including children in orange at right. A man in white dhoti and shawl stands among the onlookers near the centre-left. A red wall, trees and a multi-storey building form the background.2017-08-14August 14 20172017-08-14