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A street scene in a busy Indian city. In the foreground a smiling man with long dark hair and a white forehead mark wears a loose saffron-orange robe and holds a coconut in one hand and a long staff or rod in the other. Behind him a man in white shirt and white trousers walks beside a man in a light shirt holding a green pumpkin-like gourd. Parked white coaches line the left, shop shutters and signboards line the right, and a few more saffron-clad figures walk down the road in the distance. a person is described by the orange robe, long swept-back hair and forehead marking, consistent with the page's account of the yatra start where coconut and pumpkin were broken.

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Street photograph in an Indian city of a barefoot man in a long orange-saffron robe with long dark hair and a tilak on his forehead, holding a broken coconut half in one hand and reaching out with the other, on a roadside beside parked white coaches. Nearby, a man in white shirt and trousers carries a green coconut, and a woman in a white sari carries a red suitcase, walking past shuttered shops, a Honda sign and a Udipi restaurant. A breaking-coconut ritual is visible, matching the page's account of a yatra start.2006-05-22A street photograph in a busy Indian city, with a row of white coaches parked along the left and shopfronts and signs lining the road. A barefoot man with long dark hair, wearing a flowing saffron-orange wrap, walks down the middle of the road holding a coconut in one hand and a small offering in the other. Behind him, several men in white kurta-style clothing follow, one carrying a coconut, and another person in an orange wrap walks further back. A young man in a white t-shirt and jeans with a camera around his neck walks past on the right. Signs read Hotel Omni, Poona, Universal and Photostat. Appearance-based cues on the foreground figure (long swept hair, saffron wrap, ritual coconut) match the page's a person label, so this is a person walking in a yatra procession.2006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22A street scene in a busy Indian town. In the centre, a figure with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron robe and a beaded rudraksha mala, walking along the roadside past a white bus and parked vehicles. Beside them, a man in a checked grey shirt holds a small lit oil lamp or offering in his hands. Shopfronts, signboards and pedestrians line the street behind them.2005-05-25January 05 20062006-01-05May 22 20062006-05-22May 25 20052005-05-25 +1 copiesA barefoot man in a flowing saffron-orange robe walks down a busy city street, holding a pumpkin-like gourd in one hand and a long stick in the other, with a red tilak on his forehead and long dark hair past his shoulders. Behind him, men in white kurtas follow, one carrying a green coconut. A white tour bus, parked cars, a motor rickshaw and shuttered shopfronts line the road under tangled overhead wires. Posters on poles advertise a beauty and slimming centre and a hotel.2006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22January 07 20062006-01-07A street photograph in a busy Indian town. A figure in a long saffron-orange robe, with long dark swept-back hair and a vibhuti mark on the forehead, bends forward on the roadside, apparently about to strike a green pumpkin or gourd lying on the asphalt. Three men stand behind him: two in white shirts and white trousers, one of them wearing a rudraksha-style mala, and a third in a long white kurta holding a stick or rod. A green-and-yellow auto-rickshaw and a white tourist bus stand to the left, and parked cars and shuttered shop fronts line the street, with signboards including Hotel Surya and a photostat shop. The candidate in orange has distinctive long hair, saffron clothing and vibhuti cues, so the robed figure is a probable Swamiji.2006-05-22