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Indoor photo of a long blue wooden table laid with offerings for a ritual meal. Several plastic bowls in orange, turquoise and red hold rice, grains and food, with spoons resting in them. Behind the table, red and turquoise bowls hold more offerings, and a few wrapped gift packets sit near flower garlands. In the foreground a seated man in white clothes, with dark hair, sits on a folding chair writing or reading at a small board. Other people in white clothing stand in the background near the table. The floor is concrete.

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October 18 20072007-10-18October 15 20072007-10-15October 15 20072007-10-15Evening ritual gathering of seated devotees in white traditional clothing on a concrete floor. In the foreground, a man in white dhoti and shirt with a dark beaded mala sits behind a silver tray holding a red kumkum-covered yantra or shrine object decorated with white flowers, with red kumkum-dotted diyas arranged around it. On the left, a row of brass and steel bowls holds fruits including apples, bananas and pineapple, nuts and sweets, set out as offerings. Behind them, several men and women in white sit in meditative posture, some with orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and one woman wears a white head covering. Potted palm plants frame the left edge.2006-10-21A group puja in white ritual clothing around a gold kalasha-style vessel on a gold tray, decorated with a white jasmine garland and red kumkum. An older man with long white hair and a white beard, wearing white clothes and a rudraksha mala, sits at the centre, with several people beside him touching the vessel and sprinkling kumkum. Behind them, metal bowls of grains, fruits and offerings line a raised platform among potted palms, and more seated devotees in white and orange sashes fill the background. a person candidate by appearance cues (long swept-back hair, rudraksha mala) but uncertain given the white ritual dress.2006-10-21A photograph of a long offering table covered with many metal bowls and plates of food, including rice, lentil and vegetable dishes, sweets, bananas, orange carrots and coconuts, wrapped with foil and placed before a dark red velvet curtain. Two people in orange clothing stand at the table: a child in an orange top leans over the far end, and an adult in an orange dhoti and shirt bends forward arranging the bowls. A seated person's head is visible in the lower right corner. The scene suggests a food offering for prasad, and the page links it to Deepavali and Kaali pooja, though the offering itself is not clearly labelled.2006-10-21A long red-walled initiation hall with a red carpet and marigold-garlanded poles. Rows of devotees sit cross-legged at low gold-and-patterned tables holding brass plates, small oil lamps and offering trays. A bald man in a white shirt with a lanyard bends over a table while a white-clad attendant hands over papers. A woman in a red sari with a blue lanyard stands at left. In the foreground a seated sannyasi in an orange turban and white garland with rudraksha and bangles receives a plate, and saffron-robed sadhus sit along the left side. The scene suggests a puja or initiation line in progress.2016-05-06Outdoor photograph of a covered pavilion with a corrugated roof during a festival procession. Along the left, three decorated shrine arches with colourful striped borders stand over tables holding deity murtis, garlands and fruit. On the floor, rows of brass plates are heaped with white and yellow flowers as offerings. A golden ratha-style carrier on a blue wheeled cart sits at the centre. On the right, a man in a white dhoti and a man in saffron-orange robes with a white flower garland stand near the offerings, and a crowd of devotees in white and orange clothing lines the back. Orange flags hang from the roof beams.2006-12-29A bhandara feast line in which seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes are served from long rows of polished silver thalis and bowls. Volunteers wearing white dhotis with gold-bordered cloth and white hair-nets lean forward with metal ladles and pots, serving food, and a bearded sadhu in orange on the left holds his hands together in greeting. Marigold garlands hang on the serving pots and along the table edge. A long silver-topped serving table runs across the frame, and a bald sadhu in the lower left leans in. Several other volunteers and sadhus are partly visible at the top and right edges.2016-05-05October 16 20162016-10-16July 19 20162016-07-19May 06 20162016-05-06