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Night street scene in an Indian town. A small dark van parked on the road carries a bright lit screen on its roof showing a portrait of a man wearing a light yellow turban. Beside it a second lit screen on a truck displays another glowing image. Two young boys in the foreground, one in a yellow shirt and one in a striped shirt, watch the screen. A man in a long white garment stands near a gateway, with motorbikes parked along a wall and streetlamps lighting the scene.

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Night procession on a street with a white van or truck in the left foreground, headlights glowing. Behind it, a decorated ornate palanquin with a white and silver embroidered canopy carries a seated figure wearing an orange and saffron cloth, a tall orange turban-style headpiece, a gold beaded necklace, and holding a staff. Several people in saffron and orange robes walk beside the palanquin, including a child in white. Devotees in white garments crowd the right side of the street. A second illuminated decorated float with white and gold ornaments glows in the background.2015-11-21Night photograph of a dark Maruti-style van parked on a street, with a lit rooftop display box mounted on top. The box shows two large portrait photographs side by side: on the left a smiling man in a cream-coloured turban and light robe, on the right a man in a white turban and white garment with his mouth open as if speaking. Tamil text runs down the dark red panel between the portraits. A street lamp glows overhead and a blue-trimmed building stands at left. No physical people are visible in the scene.2006-11-01January 06 20122012-01-06Night photograph of a narrow village lane crowded with people pressing toward a white car with an illuminated windshield. Bright headlights and a flash glare in the foreground. Devotees in white clothing and a woman in a red sari with a child in yellow stand at the roadside beside thatched walls and a corrugated metal fence. A dark tree canopy and a utility pole rise above; a red flag hangs from a building on the right. The car's occupant is not clearly visible.2014-06-27November 01 20062006-11-01November 01 20062006-11-01January 04 20122012-01-04November 01 20062006-11-01November 21 20152015-11-21November 01 20062006-11-01Night photograph of a crowd gathered in a narrow street in Tamil Nadu around a black vehicle with a white banner reading NITHYANANDAM on its roof. Several men in orange and saffron robes with shaved heads and tripundra markings stand on a red carpet near the car, some wearing rudraksha malas. Men in white shirts and dhotis and women in saris line the route, and a brass plate is held at the lower left. Green mango-leaf festoons hang overhead and a metal railing with golden finials runs along the left edge. The people in orange are sannyasi-attired devotees; the central white-clad man is a devotee greeting them.2014-06-27Night photo of a procession on a dark street in Chennai. On the left a lit ratha or palanquin carries gilded deity figures in yellow and gold, one standing and one seated in blue, under a street lamp. Around it several people in white clothes walk and stand, and a bright red light glows on a vehicle at right.2006-11-01