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February 17 20152015-02-17December 17 20112011-12-17April 29 20152015-04-29A photograph of a priest performing an aarti with a flaming lamp during an evening ritual. He wears a cream-coloured turban and a white dhoti or shawl, with rudraksha beads and red-and-white bracelets on his wrists, and holds a lit oil lamp over a deity murti decorated with yellow marigold garlands and red rose garlands. Smoke and haze surround the scene against a dark background, and a silver offering vessel sits in the lower foreground. The visible person is a priest officiating the ritual, not an identified individual.2013-11-07Night outdoor scene at an open-air shrine. A shaved-headed person in white ritual dhoti and shawl with gold borders stands at left, holding a silver multi-flame aarti lamp with several burning flames toward a dark grey stone Ganesha murti with a trunk, adorned with yellow marigold garlands. The murti sits on a stone base before a red wall with bamboo and fairy lights; the person's arm has pale ash markings. Smoke rises. Small pebbles and a stacked stone ring surround the base.2013-12-24January 01 20142014-01-01At night, a man in white dhoti and shawl with gold border stands holding a flaming oil lamp (aarti) on a metal stand, with smoke rising. He wears a rudraksha mala and bracelets. Seated devotees in white and orange clothing, some playing drums and a brass horn, face him outdoors near a red pillar.2015-11-18A night-time photograph of a homa fire ritual at a temple. A bare-chested priest in white dhoti and shawl leans over a stone fire pit, pouring liquid from a metal vessel into flames that rise high. Several seated people in white clothes sit behind the pit, some holding offerings. Behind them is a deity murti adorned with white flower garlands, and a decorated kalasha-style structure stands in the background. Brass lamps and bowls with offerings sit on the altar in the foreground, and multicolour fairy lights glow on the wall.2010-10-16September 08 20112011-09-08Dusk outdoor scene at an ashram gate with a green metal gate on the left. A woman in a white sari holds a lit oil lamp aloft beside a stone-pillar shrine or murti surrounded by bamboo and a string of green fairy lights. Another woman in a pink top stands nearby. On the right, a group of devotees in white clothing wear garlands; an older man with white hair and a rudraksha-style mala stands centre-right, and a woman in white with a garland stands in front, hands clasped. A red-walled building with a green canopy is behind them. Several people stand in the background near a banana leaf.2015-02-19December 24 20132013-12-24October 16 20102010-10-16 +1 copies