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A bare-chested man with short dark hair and a trimmed beard stands on a stone ghat at dusk, smiling with both arms raised high. He wears only a white dhoti-style cloth and a thin chain at his neck, and his body appears dusted with light-coloured ash or powder. Behind him on the Ganges river, several wooden boats are moored along the bank, with a small group of people in colourful clothes gathered on a boat on the right and city lights glowing faintly on the far shore under a pink and lavender evening sky.

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October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11Outdoor photo on a sandy riverbank at dusk, with a pink-lavender sky and calm water behind the group. Several men stand close together, mostly bare-chested and wearing white dhotis or wraps, with several faces and bodies whitened by ash or clay. The man in the centre wears an orange and yellow checked wrap and has a fully whitened head and face, and he and others wear rudraksha beads on their chests. On the left a man in a white shirt and white trousers smiles beside them. Visible lettering across the lower right reads a copyright notice and archive source credit. Some people are mid-speech or singing with open mouths. Several devotees appear in a riverside ritual setting, with more people and cloth-spread areas faintly visible in the background.2015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11Three bare-chested men in white dhotis stand together at a riverside ghat in Varanasi, with a brick wall and painted stone wall behind them. The man on the left waves with his right hand and wears a rudraksha mala and a small pendant; the man in the centre has a beard, a chain necklace and a pendant, and his palm is raised; the man on the right smiles, has a thread across his chest and a green-bordered dhoti. Their skin appears dusted with white powder, and pink and orange cushions or mats lie at the right edge. No figure is distinctly marked as a person by the visible cues required, so identity remains uncertain.2015-10-11October 11 20152015-10-11February 13 20132013-02-13