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Outdoor photograph of a crowd of ashram participants performing a stick-based ritual dance on striped multicoloured mats in a courtyard with trees and a red-walled building behind. Foreground: a central man in a white dhoti with a gold border and a dark rudraksha-style mala, holding a stick and facing right. Surrounding men wear orange-red cloths over bare shoulders, some with long hair in knots and beaded necklaces; others wear white dhotis with gold borders. Several raise sticks overhead. Many men are barefoot. Background shows palm and fruit trees and a hillside, with a lit string of lights at right edge. Consistent with a Mattu Pongal celebration.

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January 14 20182018-01-14January 14 20182018-01-14January 14 20182018-01-14January 14 20182018-01-14January 14 20182018-01-14December 20 20102010-12-20January 14 20182018-01-14 +1 copiesOutdoor photo of a large seated group of devotees on colourful striped mats, mostly men, many bare-chested in white dhoti-style cloths with orange-gold borders and some with orange shoulder wraps. Several wear beaded necklaces and white head cloths. In the foreground, a figure in a black head covering and orange-bordered white cloth sits facing away, and to the right a bearded man sits in meditative posture with hands folded. Behind them palm trees and orange ornamental decorations hang on a wall, and in the upper right a man in white stands apart, apparently addressing the gathering.2015-05-13May 09th 20162016-05-09August 18 20162016-08-18January 14 20182018-01-14August 25 20172017-08-25