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Night street procession in an Indian town, with a crowd of devotees walking along a road lit by a streetlight. Strings of orange and yellow triangular pennants and leaf garlands stretch overhead. A banner-style poster on a stand shows a portrait of a long-haired figure in orange robes, with a banana plant tied to its frame. Women in saris, including one in a blue sari with a long braid carrying a tray of yellow flowers, and men in white shirts and dhotis walk alongside parked motorbikes and Vodafone shop signage.

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Night street procession in a crowded Indian town. Many devotees, mostly women in white saris with dark rudraksha-style necklaces, walk along the road carrying brass trays or plates of offerings. A bald young man in an orange-saffron cloth with a white urdhva-style forehead mark and beaded necklace stands in the foreground. Two ornate gold-and-red embroidered banners with floral motifs frame the left and right edges. Men in white shirts walk among them, one holding a lit torch. Shops, vehicles and bright signage line the street behind the crowd.2009-02-12Night street procession under strings of orange and white festoons and marigold-style garlands hung across the road. A dense crowd walks along the street; many women wear white or light saris and carry bundles of yellow flowers, one with flowers in her hair. Men in white shirts and dhotis, and a man in a blue t-shirt, walk among them. A white flag is held aloft at left and another white flag at right. Shops and a lit signboard line the roadside, and a vehicle and street lamps are visible behind the crowd. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person.2009-08-03Night street procession in a Tamil Nadu town. A dense crowd of mostly men in white shirts and white dhotis walks along a road lined with shops, Vodafone signs and colourful paper bunting strung overhead. Several people carry white flags with a blue emblem. A man in the foreground wears a dark beaded rudraksha-style mala and a white shirt. A shop sign reads Venkateswara in Tamil script. Electric lights illuminate the street.2009-08-03Night photograph of a procession on a street in Tamil Nadu. A large printed portrait on a white board at left shows a smiling man with a red turban and red-orange clothing, held up beside a Tamil caption reading "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" and a second line of Tamil text. Beside it a second portrait shows an older woman with white hair in dark clothing. Crowds of devotees walk behind, many in white and cream clothes, some women in white saris, a woman in red, and a man with a rudraksha mala. Many carry small blue-and-white flags, and strings of lights hang overhead. Rows of people fill the street and a bus is visible at right.2008-11-11November 11 20062006-11-11Night street procession in a crowded Indian town. Dozens of devotees in white dhotis and shirts, saffron and pink saris, and a few in checked shirts walk along the road under strings of triangular pennants and lit lamps. A saffron-robed monk in the foreground, with a maroon-bordered shawl, walks at left. Several men and women carry small red flags. A man in a white shirt and white trousers at centre holds a folded item. Buses and shopfronts line the background. Many people are visible, though not all are fully distinct.2009-02-09A night street procession in a crowded Tamil Nadu town. At centre, a smiling man in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban wears a long white-and-red flower garland and has long swept-back hair and a beard-like shadow; he is surrounded by devotees. Behind him, a man in white shirt and white trousers with a rudraksha-style mala lays a hand on his shoulder, and a woman in white reaches toward him. Around them, people in white and orange clothing press close under strings of fairy lights and hanging green banana leaves. A framed portrait of a man in a white head covering is held aloft at right, and a red-and-white backdrop hangs behind the crowd beneath a striped awning. White flags are visible at right, and an illuminated street sign with Tamil text is on a pole.2008-11-11Night street procession with many devotees in white and saffron-orange clothing, several carrying tall wooden poles topped by decorated canopies with blue, red and gold panels and pink, green and white tassels. A man in a red-orange robe with long swept-back dark hair stands near the front-right, beside a large framed portrait photograph held on a pole at right, and a man in an orange robe wears a heavy gold necklace. Behind them a billboard shows a bare-chested bearded figure in orange, and shuttered shop fronts line the street. Men in white dhotis and rudraksha malas walk with the crowd.2009-02-10October 14 20062006-10-14August 03 20092009-08-03A photograph of a dense street procession in an Indian town, with a crowd of mostly men and women in white clothes moving along a busy road lined with buses and vehicles. Above them, several multicoloured ceremonial umbrellas with gold-embroidered borders and fringe are raised, and orange and red flags are visible. At the centre, a young man in an orange-red garment and a long pink-and-white flower garland walks with a saffron-robed man beside him. Men in white shirts and a woman in a white sari with a yellow shawl are nearby, and a man in the foreground has a red tilak mark on his forehead. Banners and posters are visible along the roadside, and a large colourful advertisement board sits at the top left.2009-01-212008 - Post August - Powerful homa in Sirkazhi by trained Acharya