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A photograph of a performance on a bright temple-style stage decorated with pink, green and yellow painted pillars and a carved deity figure at right. A child in black clothes and a white headband leaps in the air above red cushions, hands reaching out, while three young performers in orange robes and white headbands grip the hands of a boy in black. Two bald men in orange robes stand at left and an orange-robed youth is at right. The deep maroon curtain behind them completes the setting.

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September 09 20132013-09-09September 09 20132013-09-09 +1 copiesSeptember 09 20132013-09-09 +1 copiesPhotograph of a performance staged in a temple-style hall with a painted pink, green and yellow archway and a dark maroon curtain. A boy in a black athletic outfit with yellow stripes performs a headstand on folded red mats, his hands on the mat and legs raised. Three young men in saffron-orange robes with shaved heads and white forehead markings steady and support him, two grasping his torso and one holding his arm. A fourth boy in black with a white forehead mark also helps. A painted deity figure holding a mace stands at the right edge, and a seated boy in a maroon wrap watches from the background.2013-09-09 +1 copiesSeptember 09 20132013-09-09September 09 20132013-09-09September AFP 2013Six young people stand barefoot in a row on a polished white floor in front of a colourful painted temple wall with two large guardian figures holding tridents and maces. Four boys wear orange sleeveless tunics and loose orange trousers, and two wear black shirts and black trousers or shorts. They stand with palms pressed together in anjali mudra, and several have white tilak markings on their foreheads. A dark maroon curtain hangs in a doorway behind them, with a red patterned mat on the floor.2013-09-09September 09 20132013-09-09September AFP 2013September 09 20132013-09-09September 09 20132013-09-09