Skip to content
Nithyanandapedia
A street scene at a busy road junction with traffic police booths in the background. A man in a silver car smiles and gestures with raised palm while wearing a saffron-orange robe and a red-and-white flower garland with green leaves draped around his neck; he is seated in the car's open front window. A woman in a white top and black-and-white saree-style dress leans in with palms pressed together in namaskar, and a small crowd of onlookers, including a woman with a hair clip, surrounds the car. Another person in saffron clothing sits in the rear seat near a striped fur-like covering. A red-and-white traffic police booth and a bus are visible.

More like this

Open the gallery
February 15 20092009-02-15February 15 20092009-02-15A photograph taken at a street junction beside a busy road, with a silver SUV stopped and its front passenger door open. A man seated inside the vehicle wears a thick garland of red and orange flowers over an orange robe, with a white flower garland below it, and devotees offer him red roses. A woman in a yellow top leans in from the left, and children reach in holding roses. A man in an orange robe stands at the right of the open door, holding a phone. Behind them are a white car, motorcycles, a rickshaw and traffic police signs. Being garlanded and offered roses at a roadside stop, the scene suggests a welcome. a person appearance is uncertain: the seated man has long dark hair and an orange robe, but this is insufficient to identify him.2009-02-15A photograph of a crowd pressing around a silver minivan on a busy street in Chennai, with a traffic barricade and a blue-and-white bus behind it. A man with a red and white flower garland sits in the driver's seat, smiling and wearing an orange top. Around the vehicle, devotees crowd close: women in saris, one in a green blouse with a pink flower in her hair, another in white with a gold border, and a girl in a red top. Some hold out hands and flower garlands in red and white toward the vehicle. Several men stand nearby, one in an orange shirt and another in a white shirt. Garlands of red and white flowers hang in the foreground.2009-02-15A photograph taken on a city street beside a silver car with its door open. A man in orange-red robes with long dark hair sits sideways in the driver's seat, smiling, with his feet on the floor outside. Around the open door, several people crowd closely; a man in a white shirt on the left presses his palms together in greeting, and a woman in the lower left holds flowers. Behind them are a white car, roadside shops with signboards, and a red banner with Tamil script on the right. The road is busy with traffic and two-wheelers, and a traffic police booth is visible. Appearance-based cues including long swept-back hair and saffron-orange robes are present, so this is a person in person in the car, but the identification rests on those cues only.2009-02-15February 15 20092009-02-15A man in an orange shawl and red-orange garland sits in the open rear door of a silver SUV on a city road, smiling as people crowd around the vehicle. A white-shirted older man on the left holds bunches of green leaves, and a grey-haired woman and children stand in front of the car. A yellow-and-white S.R.S. Travels bus passes behind, with Chennai traffic police barricades and shop signs along the roadside.2009-02-15A photograph taken from outside a silver SUV on a roadside in Bidadi, Bengaluru. A man with dark hair and an orange-red garment sits in the open rear passenger window, wearing a large garland of pink and yellow flowers, smiling and raising a hand toward a crowd. Several men in white shirts and light trousers press close, one reaching toward the window, while others stand along the road. Trucks, a bus and palm trees are visible in the background on a dusty road lined with utility poles.2009-02-15A person in an orange-saffron garment sits in the driver's seat of a silver SUV, leaning out of the open door. Thick garlands of pink flowers, white blossoms, yellow flowers and green leaves are draped around them, and a red-and-orange garland is held up. Several men crowd around the open door: one in a white shirt on the left, others in dark shirts on the right, one holding up the garland with gold bangles on his wrist. Behind them is a busy roadside with auto-rickshaws, a blue van and a car, palm trees and a low white wall. The person's figure is not confidently identifiable as a specific individual from appearance alone.2009-02-15February 15 20092009-02-15A photograph taken through the open window of a silver car on a roadside. A smiling man with a shaved head and an orange-saffron robe sits at the steering wheel, reaching his hand out toward a crowd of people pressing against the car. In the foreground a woman in a white sari with a flower garland in her hair and a bouquet in her hand leans in, and older people and children crowd the sides of the vehicle. Behind them a yellow metal railing, a grey wall, palm trees and motorcycles with riders line the road. A purple logo sits in the top-left corner.2009-02-15February 15 20092009-02-15