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A photograph of a crowded narrow passage inside a partly built hall with yellow steel pillars, stacked wooden crates and boards on the left, and a red brick wall on the right. Dozens of devotees walk and gather in a line toward the far end. Foreground figures include a woman in a red and orange saree, a man in a light shawl and dark trousers, a child in a green embroidered outfit, and a man in a blue kurta. Several people in the distance wear bright saris and salwar kameez. Bright tube lights overhead light the scene.

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December 12 20162016-12-12A crowded warehouse storage area with breeze-block walls, yellow steel posts and fluorescent tube lights overhead. Stacks of rough wooden planks, cardboard boxes and rolled mats fill the back, along with a red wooden cart with spoked wheels and a folded yellow umbrella at right. Many people in mixed clothing crowd the aisles: a man in a pink shirt at left, women in white kurtas with orange shawls, a woman in a multicoloured print dress, a woman in a colourful striped sari, and a young girl in white. Some wear rudraksha-style beaded necklaces. Gold-framed panels lean against the wall at left.2016-12-12December 12 20162016-12-12Night-time photograph of a crowded covered walkway with a dirt floor and bright overhead tube lights. In the foreground, a woman in white with dark hair and a man in orange-brown robes with a rudraksha mala walk past, while a man in a white dhoti and shirt and a woman in an orange sari with a rudraksha mala walk toward the camera on the right. Behind them, many devotees in white and saffron-orange clothes move along the aisle, and a stone platform with a dark grey top stands in the background. The scene is blurred from motion.2013-07-13January 15 20092009-01-15Crowded interior of a temple colonnade with tall stone pillars, devotees pressing forward in bright light from an open doorway. Foreground: a young girl with wet hair in a green and yellow sari, and a woman in a black sari with rudraksha mala. A man in white wet clothing and a rudraksha pendant stands at right beside a person in an orange robe. Several devotees wear white or orange clothes, some with hands folded in namaskar. Many people appear damp. A plain description with no visible deity murti or name signage.2009-07-13Crowded interior of a concrete-block workshop with bare fluorescent tubes overhead. Many devotees, mostly women in saffron, yellow, red and multicoloured salwar kameez, walk through a wood-strewn space filled with stacked timber, planks and carved gilded panels. A woman in a red blouse wears a rudraksha mala and holds a small object near her waist. A cameraman in white dhoti with gold border films from the left. Several people in white dhotis and shawls stand among the crowd, and a gilded carved arch rests on the left.2016-12-12Devotees walk along a long colonnaded corridor of a temple, with red pillars, a wooden-beamed ceiling and scaffolding at right. At centre, a man with long swept-back hair wears a saffron-orange dhoti and wrap with a gold-and-beaded necklace and walks barefoot. Beside him, a younger man in saffron robes with a beaded mala carries a tall golden staff. Women in saffron-and-pink saris, a woman in white, and a bare-chested man in white trousers and a belt move among a crowd. Green and pink cloth hangs from a pillar at left.2009-01-15A crowded interior of a temple corridor with dark stone pillars painted with colourful bands and overhead fluorescent lights. A dense mass of devotees presses against a metal grille on the left. Many men wear white dhotis and shawls with yellow or orange borders, and a few women wear red and yellow saris. A bare-chested man on the left and a man in white near the centre stand among the crowd, while others raise cameras and phones at the upper right. Hands reach toward the grille, and one man holds a folded paper. The image is a photograph, and the scene appears to be a darshan queue at a temple.2010-12-29A photograph inside a temple corridor with dark carved wooden walls and brass studded doorframes. A tall gold-coloured pillar or flagstaff rises in the background. Devotees queue along metal crowd barriers, painted yellow and blue, in the foreground; one man in a yellow checked shirt sits at left. In the middle distance, several people in white dhotis and shirts walk toward a sanctum, and one man wears an orange-saffron cloth draped over his body. Personal details of anyone in the crowd are not clear enough to identify, and the scene is lit dimly with warm light.2012-05-09A busy workshop interior where devotees move among stacked wooden planks, timber beams and disassembled gilded wooden panels with ornate golden carvings. A man in white with a red-and-white shawl at left stands near a steel vessel, while a woman in a lime-green sari and a woman in a white sari with a dark shawl are among others walking and handling the parts. Several girls in red, purple and white clothing are present, with footwear scattered on the floor. A concrete-block wall and yellow steel supports frame the hall.2016-12-12July 17 20082008-07-17