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A busy urban street scene under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. A white Hindustan Ambassador-style sedan with a roof rack is in the foreground, its driver visible behind the windshield. Traffic includes a black minivan, a yellow auto-rickshaw, a large orange articulated bus, motorcycles with riders, and a brown truck at the right edge. Behind them stand a multi-storey whitish-beige building with a bank signage and a large green tree, with palm trees further back. No ritual, ashram or a person-related activity is visible in this view.

November 05 2006

September 26 2006

A blurred street scene in a busy Indian city. Several motorcycle riders, including a man in a light blue shirt in the foreground, travel along a road lined with white car-like taxis and vans, with a white-painted road divider on the left. Tall buildings, trees and a green-and-yellow directional signal stand along the roadside, with a blue overhead sign ahead. No ritual, deity or a person depiction is visible.

A busy city street intersection with palm trees and a red traffic signal. A large rooftop billboard reads NEVA WORLD CLASS INNERWEAR. Beneath it, a large street billboard shows a saffron-robed figure with a shaved head and a smaller portrait inset, with Kannada script beside. A yellow-and-black auto-rickshaw and several cars, buses and motorcycles fill the road, and a few pedestrians walk across the crossing. A small decorated gate stands at the corner near parked scooters.

September 19 2006

January 30 2009

A busy street in an Indian town on a hazy day, with cars, buses, auto-rickshaws and motorbikes crowding a dusty road lined with trees and shopfronts. Men in white shirts and dhotis ride motorcycles and walk along the pavement, and a small vehicle carries green banana plants and foliage toward the procession area. Signboards read AYYANNA and TN 45 on the vehicles, and the scene suggests a roadside gathering for a ratha procession rather than a ceremony itself. No deity or featured ritual figure is clearly visible in the frame.

A white Hindustan Ambassador sedan drives along a paved road in front of a rocky hill with sparse vegetation. A man in a white shirt sits in the front passenger seat, and a small red-and-black flag is mounted on the car's front fender. Beside the road, a thatched-roof open shed stands among green trees, with a man in white dhoti walking past and a second pedestrian nearby. Utility poles, a roadside signboard and a tall palm line the street, and a satellite dish appears on a concrete building at right.

A busy town street in Tamil Nadu viewed from a temple-style carved stone pillar at right. A saffron-orange flag hangs from the pillar. Traffic fills the road: a blue-and-white city bus, a white auto-rickshaw with a portrait photo on its front, silver and dark hatchback cars, and motorcycles with riders in the foreground. Shopfronts line the street with signboards in Tamil script, including a red banner and a sign reading Vasavi Bhaisa... Electronics style signage. Pedestrians walk along the pavement under an overcast sky with overhead wires.

A busy urban street corner in Bengaluru, India, photographed in daylight. On the left, a large billboard on a multi-storey building shows a portrait of a saffron-robed man with a tall orange head-cloth, beside smaller portraits and a Kannada-language message. Motorcycle riders and two black-and-yellow auto-rickshaws move through the junction, and a few pedestrians walk along the pavement. A yellow ornamental gateway stands in the road, and traffic signals hang above. The man on the billboard is a printed portrait, not a physical person in the scene; the visible riders and pedestrians are the only physical people.