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Outdoor photo of a dirt yard beside a tall red brick boundary wall with a red-tiled roof kiosk and a red building with air conditioner units at right. Several people stand in a loose group near a mound of dry straw and rubble. Two figures in saffron orange robes stand at centre, one lifting or handling material. Other people wear white kurta, red shirt, black shirt and light blue clothing. A blue handcart labelled TEMPLE sits at left beside a green bucket. Trees and utility poles fill the background under an overcast sky.

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Wide outdoor view of a dusty, unpaved construction yard beside a tall red-brick multi-storey building with rows of window air-conditioner units. A red boundary wall and green trees fill the background. Near the centre, a small group of people in white and orange-saffron clothing stands among piles of earth and construction materials, while a wheelbarrow and bare ground occupy the foreground.2016-08-18A construction site at a temple compound with a partially built concrete block wall with crenellated tops. Several men work on the ground in front of it: two monastics in saffron-orange robes and shawls bend over a low work area with bowls and rubble, a man in a blue and white checked shirt and beige trousers stands nearby, another man in a white shirt and dhoti gestures with an arm raised, a man in a red-and-pink checked shirt watches, and a man in grey shirt and checked lungi stands at right. Piles of gravel and dirt lie on the ground, a bamboo pole rises beside the wall, and palm and leafy trees stand behind.2006-12-12A construction site for a temple with red-brown earth heaped in large mounds and shallow trenches. Two workers in the foreground shovel soil: a young man in a light blue shirt and green shorts and an older man in a checked shirt and teal head cloth. Behind them, several people in orange robes and white dhotis or kurtas walk and work among the piles. Nearby is a wooden scaffold frame, a blue plastic drum, scattered stones and rubble, and a small brick building. Tall palm and leafy trees fill the background under a pale sky. +1 copiesDecember 12 20062006-12-12 +1 copiesOutdoor campus scene at a red brick compound wall topped with barbed wire. A bare-chested man in white dhoti with yellow border and a rudraksha mala stands on the left, looking down. Three people in dark clothes dig in a pile of reddish-brown soil with shovels and a long-handled tool, while a blue metal frame and a metal bucket sit in the foreground. No sign of a person is visible.2016-08-18December 12 20062006-12-12 +1 copiesA photograph of an outdoor construction site at an ashram, with bare red-brown earth, heaps of gravel and red soil, and rows of concrete pillars and partly built cinder-block walls. A cluster of about twenty people in saffron and white clothing, some in orange robes and some in white dhotis and shirts, stand around a blue barrel near the middle of the site. Workers in lungis and shirts are scattered among them. A white vehicle and a few palm trees and a water tower sit in the hazy background. A small figure in orange stands atop a pillar on the left. The attribution to a specific person is uncertain from appearance alone.2006-12-12A construction site with piles of red-brown earth and broken bricks at a temple build. A man on the left wears an orange turban and orange robe and holds a long wooden stick, standing beside a white-clad figure with a shaved head in the background. Several young men in saffron-orange dhotis and orange shawls, and others in white dhotis, walk along a dirt path between the soil heaps. On the right, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands near a worker in a checked shirt and pink headcloth who is shoveling sand into a bucket. Trees, a utility pole and a stack of bricks fill the background under a pale sky.August 18 20162016-08-18December 12 20062006-12-12 +1 copiesA photograph of a temple construction site with bare red earth, a stack of concrete blocks, and rebar-topped pillars. A cluster of about twenty-five people in white kurtas and dhotis stand and mill around, with several monks in saffron/orange robes among them. A figure in saffron with long dark hair stands on the left behind the block wall. A young worker in a red checked shirt and blue headwrap stands beside a blue plastic drum, and a man in a white dhoti stands in the foreground near a round metal rebar cage. Shallow metal plates and a pile of sand sit on the ground.Outdoor photograph of a group digging red earth at a construction site beside a single-storey red building with a green corrugated metal roof and a flagpole. Several people in orange or saffron robes and several in white clothes dig with spades and shovels in a trench. A pile of grey stone blocks and rubble lies behind them, with palm trees and a power line overhead. On the right, a man in orange robes with a rudraksha mala stands barefoot watching the work. The scene suggests ashram temple construction labour.2006-11-20