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A shaved-head man in a black blindfold holds up a white card with handwritten blue ink reading MUDRA, touching his temple with his other hand. He wears a long string of rudraksha beads over bare shoulders and a saffron-orange shawl printed with Sanskrit text, plus a red thread on his wrist and a metal watch. Seated people in white clothes and orange shawls fill the background.

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July 16 20172017-07-16 +1 copiesFebruary 10 20162016-02-10 +2 copiesDecember 06 20162016-12-06A young man in white clothes wears a large rudraksha mala with red-thread knots and a black bead mala. He covers one eye with an orange-and-black eye-patch-style mask and holds a sheet of white paper up close to his face with the other hand, appearing to look through the masked eye at the paper. A teal-clothed person stands softly out of focus at the upper left, and a bright red-orange cloth fills the background at right.2016-12-09December 21 20152015-12-21A man in a crowded outdoor gathering wears a saffron-orange cloth blindfold printed with small black symbols tied over his eyes. He wears a white kurta, several rudraksha malas around his neck, a rudraksha bracelet and beaded wrist bands on his right hand, and holds up a blank white sheet of paper. Behind him a large blurred audience of many people in mixed clothing fills the frame, with saffron and white garments visible among them.2016-12-06December 10 20162016-12-10July 09 20122012-07-09December 06 20162016-12-06Photograph of a seated devotee in a crowded hall, shown in profile from the side. A man in the foreground wears an orange-and-black eye covering, a rudraksha mala around his neck, rudraksha bracelets on his wrist, and a white dhoti-style cloth with a gold border over his bare upper body. He holds a small folded white paper up in one hand. Around him sit other participants in white and yellow clothing, including a woman in a mustard-yellow blouse and red-bordered sari seen from behind. Their attention is directed forward. No a person identification is made from appearance.2016-12-06A crowd of devotees seated closely together, many wearing rudraksha malas and bare-chested or in white clothes, with orange-red markings across their eyes. In the centre, a balding, grey-haired man in a plain white shirt and red-beaded mala wears a black eye mask with orange-red markings, looking forward. Nearby, a bearded man with a bare chest and multiple rudraksha malas has his eyes closed. A man in a red blindfold appears at left, and out-of-focus heads fill the foreground. The scene suggests a group meditation or ritual session with participants blindfolded and marked on the eyes.2016-12-06December 21 20152015-12-21