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Outdoor street photo in Tamil Nadu showing a central figure in a saffron-toned garment with a thick red flower garland and a white jasmine garland, smiling, with a small red mark on the forehead and a bare upper body adorned with gold armlets. Surrounding him, devotees in white shirts and dhotis, a woman in a green sari with a white flower garland, and a man in glasses crowd close as they press forward past a silver SUV parked along a narrow street lined with yellow-green walls and houses. Several uniformed police officers stand in the background.

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June 22 20142014-06-22June 24 20142014-06-24 +1 copiesOutdoor street scene in daylight with a crowd pressing close around a central figure. A smiling man with long dark hair, a red-brown vibhuti-style forehead mark, a white flower garland, a dark rudraksha mala and gold ornaments on his arms is at centre, bare-chested with a red-brown cloth draped at his waist, seemingly being greeted by people. Beside him a shaved-headed man in an orange robe and orange-beaded mala holds a bunch of red flowers. Around them men in white shirts, a woman in a green sari with jasmine in her hair, and a cameraman with a large lens on the right. A green wall, a barred gate and a parked white van line the street behind.2014-06-22 +1 copiesJuly 17 20092009-07-17Outdoor street photo of a crowd gathered around a central man with short dark hair, smiling, wearing a white floral garland and a red-and-white flower garland over a reddish-brown shawl, with a vibhuti mark on his forehead. Two devotees in orange and saffron robes with rudraksha malas stand nearby; one wears a white turban-like headwrap. A woman in a green saree with a white flower garland in her hair leans in from the foreground, and men in white shirts press in around him. Yellow walls and a green gate are behind them, and a camera lens is visible at the right edge. Appearance cues for the central man are not distinctive enough to confirm identity, so he is described by role only.2014-06-22 +1 copiesJune 22 20142014-06-22 +1 copiesOutdoor street scene under a striped canopy in red, green, orange and blue, beside a green building with arched windows. A dense crowd of many dozens of men, women and children presses around a black car at left. In the centre, a woman in a dark red sari with a long red and white garland and a gold-bead necklace receives a tray of offerings from a young girl in white with flowers in her hair. Around them, several saffron-robed sannyasis with shaved heads, rudraksha malas and vibhuti on their foreheads stand with hands folded. A uniformed police officer stands near the car.2014-06-24 +1 copiesJune 26 20142014-06-26June 23 20132013-06-23 +2 copiesJune 24 20142014-06-24 +2 copiesAugust 08 20092009-08-08A street scene in front of a house, where a man in a rust-orange turban, orange-red robe and a long white and red flower garland with rudraksha beads stands at the centre, smiling and gesturing with one hand toward a group. Around him, shaven-headed young men in saffron-orange cloth and rudraksha malas press close, and devotees including an older woman in a white sari with green border hold a coconut and a tray with flowers and fruit. A black SUV, a white van, police officers and onlookers fill the background, with a plumeria tree and banana plant at right. The man in the orange turban and garland is a probable Swamiji by his distinctive turban, flower garland and rudraksha beads, appearing as an in-person figure.2014-07-01