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Night photograph of a dense street procession crowd in a town street lined with shops and tangled overhead wires. Bright streetlights and a glowing orange sky blur the scene. In the centre, a decorated golden ratha or palanquin with carved pillars moves along the road, carried among many devotees, some in white clothes. Hundreds of heads fill the lower foreground, and a tall figure stands near the cart. The image is blurred and overexposed, with no clear identifiable individual.

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October 27 20062006-10-27Night street procession with dense crowds of devotees filling the road, many in white clothes, moving past shops and multi-storey buildings under street lights. Two decorated chariots or ratha float forward, each carrying a deity murti under ornate canopies with gold and colourful decorations; a priest in a white dhoti stands on the nearer chariot. A large red and yellow decorated umbrella stands on the right edge. Signs and shop banners line the street, and a bluish logo appears in the upper left corner.2006-10-27Night street scene during a procession in a busy Indian town. A large crowd of men and women walks past shopfronts and a white minibus with headlights on. Many men wear white shirts and white dhotis, some with white forehead markings, while women wear bright saris in yellow, red and pink. At right, a decorated temple-car or ratha structure is lit with string lights and marigold garlands. Shop signs and a banner line the street. a person is not visibly identifiable in this image.2006-10-28Night street procession on a busy town road lit by sodium street lamps and shop signs. A white-clad figure walks beside a deity palanquin decorated with orange and white flower garlands, lit by floodlights, while a large red and multicoloured fringed ceremonial umbrella is carried over a white-draped figure at right. Dense crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis walks along, with uniformed police officers in khaki and blue caps at the edges. Multi-storey buildings with balconies and shop boards line the street. The devotional processional scene matches a Koadikkan Ratha Yatra stop.2006-10-27August 02 20092009-08-02A nighttime street procession in a crowded Tamil town. In the centre, a gilded, canopied palanquin with red and white draping and lit garlands carries a deity murti or decorated image, lit by strings of bulbs. A dense crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis, some with saffron scarves, walks around it. Strings of white flags with small portraits line the street overhead. On the left a sign reads Vasan Eye Care, and a painted banner hangs on the right building.2008-11-11August 02 20092009-08-02 +1 copiesFebruary 07 20172017-02-07 +2 copiesFebruary 07 20172017-02-07 +1 copiesAugust 02 20092009-08-02Night photo of a decorated temple-style float, a ratha, on a street in Tamil Nadu during a procession. The gilded carved structure is hung with garlands in white, pink and green and holds a deity murti at its centre, lit by a bright lamp. Framed portraits of a saffron-robed guru wearing a white head-wrap are mounted on the float's sides. Two men in white shirts stand at the front edge with their backs to the camera, facing the float. Red flags and shopfronts with lit signs line the street, and the image is motion-blurred.2006-10-24Night street procession in an Indian town. A golden ornate palanquin or ratha, decorated with red drapes and a small deity murti, is carried forward with a large golden-yellow teardrop banner and a decorated parasol above it. Dense crowds of devotees walk alongside, many wearing white clothes, some in orange, holding tall saffron-orange flags on poles. Shops, a Fevicol sign, and a CG Crompton sign line the street under streetlights. Nobody in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person; the palanquin occupant is not visible.2009-02-10 +1 copies