A photograph of a Tamil city bus with its windows open and passengers inside. A woman in a white sari with a rudraksha mala and a flower in her hair reaches up to take a folded paper handed from the bus window. Passengers inside, including a woman in black, reach out holding papers. A red and white bus body bears Tamil script, and a date stamp reads 09.10.2006. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a Tamil city bus with its windows open and passengers inside. A woman in a white sari with a rudraksha mala and a flower in her hair reaches up to take a folded paper handed from the bus window. Passengers inside, including a woman in black, reach out holding papers. A red and white bus body bears Tamil script, and a date stamp reads 09.10.2006.

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October 09 2006

A photograph of a dirt roadside beside a pink-and-white bus. A smiling man in a light green checked shirt, grey trousers and a dark shoulder bag holds a stack of printed papers. Beside him, a smiling woman in a white saree with a thin coloured border and gold bangles holds more papers and gestures toward him. Scrubby green bushes, utility poles and a blue sign with partial lettering stand behind them under a partly cloudy sky. No a person candidate is visible.

Photograph inside a minibus showing two young women seated in the foreground, both in white and gold-bordered cream saris with gold jewellery. The woman on the left wears a red-brown rudraksha mala, a small red bindi, and gold bangles, and the woman on the right wears a gold necklace and a red bindi. Behind them several more women are visible in the bus seats, one with a tilak mark on the forehead. A date stamp in the lower right reads 09 10 2006 with an archive copyright notice. No a person candidate is visible.

October 09 2006

Photograph taken inside a bus with cream-upholstered seats and metal grab poles, showing several women and girls seated and standing. In the foreground, an older woman with grey hair and a tilao-style mark on her forehead wears an orange blouse and a yellow sari while gesturing with her hand. Beside her, a younger woman in a yellow-green sari with a red bindi and vibhuti-style marks looks toward the front. Behind them, a girl in a red top and a younger girl in a cream top stand near the pole, and a smiling woman in a purple-and-teal sari sits at the back. Through the window, trees and a chain-link fence are visible.

A photograph taken through the open windows of a white and red public bus with yellow destination boards reading Periyarnaiyam and Sirumakkal. Several passengers sit inside: an older woman in a magenta sari with a gold necklace in the foreground, a man in a checked shirt at left, and women in yellow and green-blue saris behind the metal bars. Their faces show a mix of calm and expectant looks as the bus travels past trees.

Night photograph of women devotees standing in a street procession in Coimbatore. In the foreground a woman in a red blouse and white sari with a striped border holds a small bag, while beside her a woman in a maroon blouse and cream sari stands with palms pressed together in prayer. A woman in a blue blouse with white flowers in her hair and gold jewellery stands at right, and an older woman in dark patterned clothes with glasses stands behind. A woman at left wears a red bindi. A white boundary wall and building are behind them, with a dark tree at upper right.

Outdoor photo of a group of devotees gathered closely around a tall framed display board with Tamil text and photographs on a dirt path beside a chain-link fence and green foliage. A man in a plain white shirt with a rudraksha mala stands at the right, leaning in to the board, while a curly-haired person in white with back to camera holds a small paper and another man in a white shirt bends over the group. Several women wear sarees: one in a red blouse with a long braid, one in a dark maroon top, one in a yellow-green saree with tilak, and one in a black blouse with an orange-red saree and gold bangles, handing over currency notes. Two older women with white hair and one older man in white are also present, and a woman in teal stands at the left edge. A date stamp reads 20 10 2006.

October 20 2006

Street scene in a small Tamil Nadu town with a shop front behind the crowd. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti, seen from behind with a dark rudraksha-style necklace, gestures with his hand toward a group of people. In front stand a woman in a yellow and green saree holding a small bag, a woman in a white saree with a gold necklace holding papers, and a woman in an orange top holding a sheet of paper. Other men and women in white and pale clothing stand behind them. A shop sign reads Sravana Stores and another sign shows Chandi/Sri-style Tamil lettering. No visible a person appearance cues; the figure seen from behind is not clearly identifiable.

Street scene in a busy town with a black water tank and bamboo-pole stall framework in the foreground. A young man in a white shirt, grey trousers and a lanyard hands yellow handbills to a woman in a black head covering and turquoise sari, while a second young man in a grey shirt and dark trousers also holds handbills. On the left, several women in plain white saris stand in a row holding yellow leaflets. An elderly bare-chested man in a white dhoti and shawl stands at the right edge. Motorcycles, shopfronts and a palm-frond decoration line the road behind them.

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