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Two workers lay paving on a dusty construction site in front of a stone-block building with bamboo stalks. A man in a cream striped shirt, rolled-up jeans and bare feet works with a trowel spreading sand or cement across the concrete slabs. Behind him a woman in a striped blue top and a floral blue-and-pink sari with a patterned headscarf pours from a green bucket. Loose stone slabs and rubble lie around the ground. The scene is a site work photograph, not a ritual or satsang.

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A construction site scene at AadiKailaasa in Bengaluru. Four men work on bare red-brown earth in front of a grey breeze-block wall. A man in a white shirt, dark trousers and a purple cap bends forward swinging a pickaxe-style hoe. Beside him a man in a blue checked shirt and pink head wrap digs with a hoe, while two older men in lungis and white shirts stand watching, one holding a shovel-like tool. Bricks and loose soil lie on the ground. The scene shows manual labour during site preparation.2008-07-08Photo of stone paving work in progress on a dirt-and-stone path at an ashram site. A standing worker in a checked shirt, dark trousers and a red-and-white head wrap holds a cut stone block, while a second worker in a maroon shirt and light trousers crouches to set cobblestones into a sand bed. Large pale rectangular paving slabs and loose stone blocks line the walkway. Behind them are red-painted buildings with green roofs, a red stone staircase at right, a pile of sand, a parked silver van and a distant figure in white.2016-09-10October 28 20162016-10-28December 19 20062006-12-19A photograph of an outdoor construction work area. In the foreground a man in a blue striped shirt and white lungi crouches and cuts a grey granite paving stone with a handheld angle grinder, sparks and stone dust around him. A pile of cut and uncut grey and beige granite stone blocks lies on the sandy ground beside a red brick boundary wall. Behind him, another man in a white shirt and white dhoti carries a bag, and a few more workers are faintly visible near the wall. Yellow bamboo stalks grow to the left, a large green tree stands at right, and an air conditioning unit is mounted on the wall. No ceremony, a person or event is visible.2016-09-07 +1 copiesApril 2008 - Making Of Kailaasa In TiruvannamalaiAadheenam Construction 20092009-01-01 +1 copiesAn outdoor yard with a pile of large pale grey stones and rock fragments scattered on bare reddish-brown earth. A small green-leafed tree stands at left beside a white block building with a red-tiled roof and a wooden door. A man in a short-sleeved patterned shirt and dark trousers stands near the stones, and a woman in a bright red sari with a white head wrap stands at right beside a low stone boundary wall. No swami or ceremony is visible.2009-09-08Outdoor construction work on a dusty courtyard at an ashram. Workers lay white hexagonal paving tiles with pink accent tiles on a sandy ground. A man in a blue checked shirt crouches to set tiles while a group of villagers stand watching: men in lungis and checked cloths, and women in orange, saffron-and-green, and cream saris with head coverings. A woman in orange holds a steel plate, and several steel plates and concrete blocks lie around. A white plinth with red and white borders stands at left, and a red-based pedestal with a white top stands at right. A white-clad figure is partly visible at the left edge.2009-12-12April 2008 - Making Of Kailaasa In TiruvannamalaiOutdoor construction site beside a tall red brick compound wall topped with barbed wire and a row of metal posts. Two workers lay large irregular grey stone slabs on a sandy, gravelly ground. A man in a dark maroon shirt and white dhoti-style trousers bends over the stones placing one, while a young man in a checked shirt, light jeans, flip-flops and a grey head wrap stands watching at right. Green creepers climb the base of the wall and a small tree stands behind. Loose stone pieces and rubble lie scattered across the foreground.2016-09-07A photograph of an outdoor plot of land with reddish-brown freshly turned soil in the middle ground and a low green ground cover in the foreground scattered with stones. A single man in a white-and-cream striped shirt, dark trousers and a pink head wrap bends forward and works the soil with a long-handled hoe. Behind him stands a grey concrete block wall, with tall coconut palms and a white building with a tiled roof on the left. The scene is an ordinary daytime ashram grounds work scene.2011-01-23