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A night-time ritual in a tented hall decorated with pink and red fabric and string lights. Large yellow-gold arched halos frame several painted deity murti, including a multi-armed goddess standing on a lion and a pink elephant-headed figure at left. In the centre, a seated man in a deep red-orange dhoti and garland sits on an ornate silver throne-like seat, and a man in a white-and-red garment stands nearby. A bare-chested priest in rust-coloured dhoti stands at right with folded hands before a low yellow altar with a metal lamp and brass vessels. A man in a dark head covering is partly visible above the altar. In the foreground, about a dozen seated devotees wear orange turbans and white garments, facing the altar. Marigold garlands and flower offerings lie on the platform, and a silver kalasha-topped stand sits to the right.

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September 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesNight photograph inside a tented pandal with a large deity arrangement: a central multi-armed goddess murti with dark hair, red-and-gold garments and a lion mount, flanked by two golden-haloed murtis and an elephant-headed figure draped in yellow marigold garlands. A seated man in orange-red robes sits on a silver throne-like seat with a garland at the right side of the platform, while a bare-chested priest in dark red cloth stands at a raised yellow altar with lamps and offerings. Devotees in orange and white head cloths sit in the foreground facing the platform. Silver kalasha-style fountain and flower garlands surround the scene.2017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesSeptember 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copiesA photograph of a festival stage with large painted clay murtis of Durga, seated on a lion, flanked by Saraswati with a veena and Ganesha, all draped in yellow marigold garlands with golden halo backdrops. A man with long dark hair, wearing a red-brown dhoti and a pink-and-white garland, sits on a silver ornate throne at the right while a woman in a white-and-yellow sari with a garland stands beside him. In the foreground, a woman in a rust-coloured sari gestures toward the throne, and devotees in orange and saffron shawls sit in rows along the bottom edge. Pink and red drapes, a silver kalasha-topped canopy and brass lamps surround the altar under a white tent.2017-09-28September 28 20172017-09-28September 28 20172017-09-28 +1 copies