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Outdoor cremation scene on open grassland under a bright sky with scattered trees and a utility pole. A pyre of logs and fabric sits on a reddish earth clearing, with smoke rising. A man in a white dhoti and shirt holds a long stick over the pyre while a man in a dark brown vest and yellow lungi stands beside him. A figure in a white kurta stands at the left of the pyre. In the foreground a person with long dark curly hair and an orange cloth draped over the shoulders sits with their back to the camera, and a standing man in white at the left edge holds a small object. Discarded plastic bags and bottles lie on the right. Other people stand in the background.

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November 14 20052005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14Outdoor cremation preparation on open grassland under a pale blue sky. A stacked pyre of thin wooden logs sits on a bare red-earth platform ringed with pink powder and flower garlands. A barefoot figure with long dark hair and a bare upper back, wearing an orange-saffron dhoti, stands facing the pyre, with another orange-clad man in white dhoti beside him. About a dozen men in white ritual dhotis and shirts stand in a row with hands folded in prayer, and a pandal with colourful garlands and cloth stands at right. Trees and distant hills form the background. a person candidate: the bare-backed figure with long hair and orange garment matches the page's appearance cues, but the face is not clearly visible.2005-11-14Outdoor cremation on open grassland under a partly cloudy sky. A large funeral pyre of stacked wood and burning logs sits on a reddish earth platform, with pink and yellow flower garlands placed at its base. A man in a white dhoti and shirt stands at right, pushing burning wood with a long pole, while another man in a light shirt and red headcloth works at the top of the pyre. A bare-backed person with long, dark, tangled hair and a saffron/orange wrap over the shoulders stands in the foreground, facing the pyre. Other men in white clothing stand at the edges, and a utility pole and scattered trees mark the background.2005-11-14Outdoor cremation ceremony on a reddish earth ground with a large pile of burning logs on brick base, smoke rising. A man in a saffron-orange shawl and dhoti pours liquid from a yellow vessel onto the pyre. Two men in white dhotis and shirts stand at left, one holding a long stick. Behind, many people in white and some in pink saris gather near parked white vans and buses under a hazy sky with hills in the distance. Marigold petals lie on the ground near the fire, and small colourful prayer flags hang at far left. No identity is asserted for the figure in saffron.2005-11-14An outdoor cremation pyre of stacked wooden logs burns on a brick base on reddish earth, with smoke rising and yellow flower petals scattered on the ground in front. Two men in white dhoti and kurta stand at the pyre; the taller one at left holds a wooden stick, and the other stands beside a bundle of wood. A saffron-robed sannyasi in orange cloth kneels at the pyre's edge tending the fire, and a second saffron-robed figure stands behind it. Around two dozen seated men in white and light shirts sit on grass to the left, with vehicles parked and a hill behind.2005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14Outdoor cremation pyre on red earth beside a grassy field, with a large column of white smoke rising from logs and wood stacked on the fire. Several people stand around it: a man in white dhoti and shirt bends toward the pyre with a stick in hand, a man in white kurta stands at left, and a person in an orange-saffron garment sits near the fire. Behind them, seated and standing onlookers fill the field, with white vans, cars and a bus parked near a forested hill. Pink powder is scattered on the ground. The scene reads as the final rites for a deceased person at the Kacharapattu site.2005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14November 14 20052005-11-14