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A young man with dreadlocked hair wrapped in a leopard-print headband, wearing glasses and an orange shawl over bare shoulders, embraces a child whose head rests on his chest. Rudraksha malas hang across his neck and chest. Beside him a dreadlocked young person with a red bindi and rudraksha beads, and a bearded bare-chested sadhu on the right, all wear rudraksha malas and stand in a hall with framed event photographs on the wall behind them. Visible people: five, with several partially cropped at the edges.

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A photograph in a bright hall showing an embrace between two men in saffron-orange cloths. The central figure, bare-chested with a dreadlocked brown hair bound by a leopard-print and silver-embellished headband, wears rudraksha bead bracelets and a small ear stud, and holds the other man in a tight hug. The man embraced has long dark hair and is bare-backed with an orange wrap. To the left, a bespectacled man with a white forehead marking and rudraksha malas stands beside them. On the right, several people in orange garments wearing layered beaded necklaces and rudraksha malas stand in the background. Cues are not sufficient to attribute the central figure to a person, so he is described by role only.2019-01-01Two men embrace closely at an outdoor gathering. The man on the left wears a leopard-print turban, gold-rimmed glasses, a rudraksha mala, and an orange cloth draped over bare shoulders, with white vibhuti marks on his forehead. The man on the right, in an orange garment with long dreadlocked hair wound up, hugs him from the side, and a green leaf-like item is held near them. Other robed people stand softly blurred behind. The scene is a warm, intimate greeting among devotees.2019-01-01Photo of several bare-chested men in saffron/orange cloths embracing at an indoor event. A central man with a dreadlock-style hairstyle wrapped in rudraksha beads and a red tilak on his forehead smiles broadly while hugging another man whose hair is tied in a bun and who wears a saffron shawl and rudraksha mala. A man at left in a saffron wrap laughs, and a man at right wears rudraksha malas and glasses. Behind them hang orange draped fabric and a wall of black-and-white framed portraits. No visible identification of a person is made from appearance alone.2019-01-01A photograph of a group of sannyasis in saffron-orange clothing at an indoor event. In the centre, a bespectacled man with a short beard and white ash markings on his forehead smiles as he embraces a man with long dreadlocked hair seen from behind, whose bare back is covered by a draped orange cloth with a gold sash. To the right, a man with dreadlocks wrapped in a leopard-print headband and a rudraksha mala necklace presses his palms together in greeting. Partly visible at left is a bearded man in orange with a red tilak. Behind them is a wall covered with black-and-white portrait photographs. Four people are visible.2019-01-01Photograph of an embrace between two sadhus with long dreadlocked hair bound up in topknots, one with a gold-tinted tie in his hair. The foreground figure, bare-shouldered with an orange cloth and rudraksha beads on his arm, hugs a second man from behind. Behind them, a smiling sadhu with white tilak marks and rudraksha necklaces, and another bare-chested man with rudraksha malas, sit in an orange-clad group. Background shows framed red-and-orange pictures on a pale wall and a yellow draped table edge.2019-01-01Two sannyasis in saffron-orange robes embrace in a hall with large blurred photographic prints of fiery imagery behind them. The man in front has short dark hair, a light beard and a gold bangle, with rudraksha beads on his wrist, and his arms are wrapped around the other man. Beside them, a sannyasi with long dreadlocked hair wound up on his head wears white vertical tilak marks, a rudraksha mala and a silver chain, and looks down. Additional people are blurred in the background.2019-01-01January 01 20192019-01-01 +1 copiesJanuary 01 20192019-01-01January 01 20192019-01-01 +1 copiesAugust 14 20172017-08-14 +1 copiesJanuary 01 20192019-01-01January 01 20192019-01-01