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Night street scene in a busy town with a crowd of many people lining and crossing a roadway lit by street lamps and vehicle headlights. A maroon public bus with a destination board stands in the background among autorickshaws and motorcycles. In the foreground, a grey-haired man with a white moustache wears a khaki shirt, a bald man with white forehead markings wears glasses, a young man in a white t-shirt holds a mobile phone to his ear, and a woman in a white sari with a gold border stands with palms pressed together in greeting. Many men wear white dhotis and shirts. Watermarked archive photo; no deity, stage or ritual is visible.

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October 19 20062006-10-19October 19 20062006-10-19A dense night-time crowd of devotees fills a street during a procession, most people standing close together and looking toward the front. Many are women in sarees of red, yellow, pink, blue and green, several with folded hands in prayer, and some wear bindi and glasses. Men in checked shirts and white dhotis stand among them, and a young man in an orange-and-white checked shirt presses his palms together. A bald toddler and several children are visible at the lower edge. A red-and-white vehicle or cart edge appears at the upper right. Warm street lighting and a dark background frame the scene. The visible people number roughly fifty, with the crowd extending beyond the frame.2006-10-19October 19 20062006-10-19November 01 20062006-11-01A night photograph of a crowd gathered on a street in front of a parked white van and roadside stalls with string lights. Many women in saris in pink, purple, blue, yellow and red stand close together, several with white and vertical tilak marks on their foreheads. A man in a yellow checked shirt and a young man in a striped shirt holding a small camera stand among them, and a few men in white dhotis move in the background. Some hands are folded in prayer. The scene suggests a public gathering or procession.2006-10-14Night street procession in a Tamil town with many devotees in white dhotis and shirts walking along a wet road lit by headlights and street lamps. A man in a white dhoti at left holds papers, a man in a maroon polo has white vibhuti on his forehead, a woman in a white and gold sari carries a steel vessel, and a man in a pink shirt holds a tray of flowers and fruit. Traffic and shop signs line the background, and the photo carries a corner logo and a date stamp.2006-10-19Night photograph of a dense street crowd in Tamil Nadu, with many people standing close together on a wet road lit by vehicle headlights and a few motorcycles. Devotees in white shirts and dhotis, women in sarees in red, pink, orange and blue, and children fill the foreground and middle. A man in a white shirt and necklace stands near the centre holding paper. In the background an illuminated vehicle and a procession-like crowd move along the road.2006-10-19Night street scene at a crowded procession route with many devotees filling the road under orange street lamps. A young man in a white t-shirt in the foreground stands with palms pressed together in namaskar. Nearby, women wear white saris with yellow borders, and a woman in a gold-green sari and glasses stands beside a man in an orange shawl. Vehicles, shopfronts and a distant string of red lights are visible behind the crowd.2006-10-19Night photograph of a dense crowd of devotees gathered along a roadside during a procession. Most stand with palms pressed together in anjali mudra, a common gesture of devotion. A man in the foreground wears a white shirt and white dhoti and holds a stick, and women in saris and salwar suits in blue, yellow, pink and teal fill the middle ground. Children stand among the adults. A white bus and van stand at the right edge, with warm street lights and a few distant figures visible in the dark background. The scene suggests a Ratha Yatra-style street procession viewed from the crowd, with no deity or a person clearly visible in frame.2006-11-01October 19 20062006-10-19June 21 20142014-06-21 +1 copies