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A photograph inside a hall where a seated woman wears a white blindfold over her eyes and holds a folded white card in her right hand. She wears a white top with a red and orange patterned shawl, an orange Kumbh Mela lanyard, a red bead necklace and a black bangle. Beside her, another woman in white with a red blindfold and a red patterned shawl sits on a mat. Behind them, more participants in white and red-orange shawls sit on colourful mats, and a gilded deity murti or ornament is visible at the top.

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September 19 20152015-09-19Crowded nighttime scene at the Kumbh Mela. In the foreground, a young woman in a white top printed with blue flowers, wearing a red-and-orange Kumbh Mela lanyard and a rudraksha mala, holds a blank white card before her eyes while a red cloth with printed text is tied over her eyes as a blindfold. To the left, a bearded man has a red-orange cloth with printed text bound over his eyes and holds a white card, and another blindfolded person in white and orange clothing stands beside him. Other devotees in red and orange robes and saris crowd the background.2015-09-15September 15 20152015-09-15September 19 20152015-09-19September 19 20152015-09-19July 16 20172017-07-16 +1 copiesSeptember 16 20152015-09-16 +1 copiesPhoto of a seated group of devotees during a blindfolded reading exercise in a hall with ornate gold and white deity murtis and shrines behind them. In the foreground, a young woman in a blue-and-white patterned top with an orange lanyard holds a folded white card up near her face, her eyes covered by a red cloth printed with script. Beside her, another woman in a white top with gold bangles presses her hand to her forehead while holding a white slip, also blindfolded with red cloth. Behind them, more participants wear white clothes and red blindfolds, some with their faces covered, sitting on colourful striped mats. The scene conveys a blindfolded reading session with participants reading cards by touch or intuition.2015-09-19June 21 20152015-06-21May 23 20152015-05-23February 10 20162016-02-10 +1 copiesJuly 07 20152015-07-07