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December 16 2011

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December 28 20112011-12-28December 28 20112011-12-28December 28 20112011-12-28December 17 20112011-12-17July 02 20162016-07-02A photograph of a homa fire ritual in a crowded hall. A man in white dhoti with a colourful striped cloth, wearing an orange turban, rudraksha mala and wristwatch, sits cross-legged behind a wooden fire platform decorated with yellow marigold petals and pink rangoli. He holds a cupped hand over a copper bowl while flames rise beside him. A bare-chested priest in an orange-yellow shawl faces him from the foreground. Behind them, devotees in white, green and saffron clothing sit with hands folded in anjali, and a standing man in white and saffron looks on.2016-12-05July 08 20172017-07-08December 28 20112011-12-28December 12 20162016-12-12September 22 20092009-09-22September 09 20162016-09-09A shaven-headed priest in white dhoti and white shawl sits cross-legged before a square homa fire pit built of ochre bricks decorated with white markings and yellow flowers. He holds a microphone stand in one hand and an open book in the other, a silver bowl of grains nearby, with a ceremonial copper-and-silver vessel and offering bowls on a tray to his left. Two decorated kalashas with yellow flowers and banana leaves sit at right beside a red-orange cloth backdrop. The scene shows a fire ritual in progress with an oil lamp at the pit's edge. No other people are visible.2011-12-28