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A street procession moves through a crowded Indian town lane lined with shopfronts and colourful signboards. Devotees in white dhotis and white shirts, many wearing orange or saffron shawls and rudraksha-style neck cords, walk close together. Among them, a man in an orange turban holds his hands together in namaskar. Several men carry tall wooden poles topped with orange and red umbrellas hung with multicoloured tassels, and one holds a red and gold fan-shaped banner. The scene is a temple procession with ritual umbrellas and banners.

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January 21 20092009-01-21A dense outdoor procession moves through a crowded street lined with canopies. Two large umbrellas with blue, red and gold patterns and the printed word Nithyanandapeetam hang above, decorated with orange, green and red tassels. A man in an orange turban and orange robe, with a long garland of white flowers, walks at the centre with his hands held together near his waist; he has long hair and a sandalwood mark on his forehead. Around him men in white shirts and black rudraksha malas carry wooden poles and walk closely, one with a sandalwood-paste mark on his forehead, and others wear orange shawls. Behind them many devotees and onlookers fill the street, some with bare heads and some in white, and red balloons are visible in the background.2007-01-12January 12 20072007-01-12Street procession in a Tamil town with a crowd walking along a road lined with shops and signboards. In the centre, a man in an orange-saffron dhoti and shawl wears a long white and orange flower garland and a sandalwood-marked forehead, with hands folded. Beside him, an elderly sannyasi with a bare chest, white beard and white vibhuti marks wears a white dhoti and white shawl, with rudraksha mala beads. Men in white shirts and dhotis walk at the sides holding long silver poles. Other devotees in saffron and white follow. Pedestrians and a building with a tiled facade appear behind.2012-06-05January 12 20072007-01-12Dense street procession seen from above, with a large crowd of men and women filling a narrow market road. Many men wear white dhotis and shirts, while several figures in saffron and orange cloth walk near a white canopy umbrella with red fringe and gold finial. Orange and red decorated umbrellas and small fringed banners are held aloft. Shopfronts, flags and strings of white pennants line the street. Crowd count is well above one hundred.2006-09-24February 02 20072007-02-02A street procession in a Tamil town. A man in a red-orange dhoti and shawl with a white flower garland stands centre, walking barefoot among devotees. Men in white dhotis and shirts carry long silver-tipped poles, and a man in saffron robes walks beside them. Behind them an elderly man in a white shawl and a bare-chested man with a white-striped cloth and red-and-gold border follow under a multicoloured umbrella. Shop fronts, signboards and a bystander crowd line the road.2012-06-05January 20 20092009-01-20A street procession in Tamil Nadu with devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls walking beside several large canopy umbrellas with red, blue and multicolored fringed tassels. At the centre, a long-haired man in an orange robe and a long rudraksha mala stands with hands folded, flanked by a sannyasi in orange and men in white. Behind them a banner with Tamil lettering is strung across the street, and orange flags flutter above the crowd. Shopfronts and buildings line the road. A broad-faced older man in white with a rudraksha mala smiles in the foreground. Appearance-based label: Swamiji (probable), the long-haired figure in orange with a rudraksha mala at the centre of the procession.2008-08-01A street procession in a hilly town. At centre, a man with a swept-back orange turban, orange robe with gold trim, multiple flower garlands and a gold necklace walks barefoot with palms pressed together in greeting. Around him, men and women in white dhotis and white kurtas with orange shawls walk alongside; a woman in white with an orange shawl appears near the left centre. Orange and red ceremonial fans with blue emblems and a pink umbrella with fringe are held overhead and at the edges. Shops, flags and bunting line the road behind, with green hills in the background.2006-09-24Street procession in daytime under a clear sky. A central figure wears a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with a gold-bordered cloth, a saffron turban, a long gold-toned bead necklace and a large pendant, and walks slightly turned, smiling. Around him, men in white dhotis and kurtas wear black-and-white rudraksha-style malas and white sacred ash marks on their foreheads. Colourful umbrellas with tassels and a utility pole, shops and signboards line the roadway behind them.2007-01-12