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A woman with a dark hair bun and a red-and-gold garland stands at a wooden home shrine cabinet with open doors, facing framed colourful deity prints decorated with white flower garlands and peacock feathers. Several small framed pictures sit on lower shelves, and an oil lamp with a white flower garland rests on the floor below. A partially visible bald man in the left foreground, with a camera-like object at the frame edge, looks toward the shrine. Pictured deities include a multi-armed figure and an elephant-headed form, a shrine-room puja scene.

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A woman with a dark bun and a red-orange blouse stands at a home shrine, holding a lit oil lamp in her right hand towards framed deity prints adorned with white jasmine garlands and peacock feathers. The prints show deity murti images on a red-and-gold background. A brass oil lamp with a white flower garland sits on a white table in front of the shrine, with a small brass bowl, a small box and printed cards. A partially visible bald man in white stands at left, and a red garland with a gold necklace is draped over the woman's shoulder. Wooden cabinet doors frame the scene.2014-06-22June 22 20142014-06-22A woman with her hair in a bun and a white jasmine garland stands in a red sari before a small shrine alcove at a home altar, bending forward with an oil lamp lit on a brass tray before her. The alcove walls are covered with framed devotional prints and calendar-style pictures of deities, with yellow flowers tucked around the frames. Carved wooden doorway arches frame the scene, and a carved brown wooden panel hangs on the left wall. The setting suggests a padapuja at a devotee's house.2014-06-26June 23 20132013-06-23 +1 copiesA woman seen from behind in a red-brown sari with gold border lights an oil lamp in a red brick shrine niche. Her hair is in a bun with a white flower garland, and she wears gold bangles and an armlet. Before her hangs a framed deity murti, garlanded with white and red flowers, and below it a framed portrait wrapped in red, orange and white flower garlands and a rudraksha-style mala. A hanging bronze bell hangs at the right. Small framed images and marigold offerings sit on side shelves, with a brass lamp stand and fruit offerings at the base. The room is a home shrine for padapuja house visits.2014-07-07 +1 copiesA man seen from behind, bare-shouldered and wearing an orange-saffron cloth draped over his shoulder, with a garland of white jasmine and red roses around his neck and across his back. He holds a lit oil lamp flame in a small shrine niche decorated with framed pictures of deities, brass lamps and a kalasha-like offering on a shelf. Above, strands of white flower garlands hang along a pink wall. Another person stands partly visible at the right edge. Festoons of flowers and a colourful painted frame surround the shrine.2014-07-02 +1 copiesJune 23 20142014-06-23June 26 20142014-06-26June 27 20142014-06-27July 08 20142014-07-08A home shrine alcove in a Tamil Nadu house, lit with small oil lamps and red flowers. A man in a white shirt with a red shawl and orange-brown rudraksha-style beads stands at left, hand extended toward a lit oil lamp in the shrine. A shaved-headed man in a red garment with a white and red flower garland stands at right, looking toward the shrine. Framed deity pictures, a framed portrait of a saint with white garland, and a brass kalasha-like vessel sit on a wooden altar with a pitched roof decorated with string lights and marigolds. Puja items and offerings are arranged on the shelf in front.2014-06-23June 27 20142014-06-27