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A photograph on a busy city street with shuttered shops and parked white coaches. A figure with long dark hair and a trident-shaped ornament on the head, wearing an orange saffron wrap over a bare back, walks away from the camera while extending one hand that holds an offering. A photographer in a white shirt and jeans with a backpack follows at left, and another man in white stands further up the street. Passengers look out from a bus at right. The scene suggests a street-side offering during a yatra.

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A street photograph in a busy Indian city, with a row of white coaches parked along the left and shopfronts and signs lining the road. A barefoot man with long dark hair, wearing a flowing saffron-orange wrap, walks down the middle of the road holding a coconut in one hand and a small offering in the other. Behind him, several men in white kurta-style clothing follow, one carrying a coconut, and another person in an orange wrap walks further back. A young man in a white t-shirt and jeans with a camera around his neck walks past on the right. Signs read Hotel Omni, Poona, Universal and Photostat. Appearance-based cues on the foreground figure (long swept hair, saffron wrap, ritual coconut) match the page's a person label, so this is a person walking in a yatra procession.2006-05-22Street photograph in an Indian city of a barefoot man in a long orange-saffron robe with long dark hair and a tilak on his forehead, holding a broken coconut half in one hand and reaching out with the other, on a roadside beside parked white coaches. Nearby, a man in white shirt and trousers carries a green coconut, and a woman in a white sari carries a red suitcase, walking past shuttered shops, a Honda sign and a Udipi restaurant. A breaking-coconut ritual is visible, matching the page's account of a yatra start.2006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22A street scene in a busy Indian city. In the foreground a smiling man with long dark hair and a white forehead mark wears a loose saffron-orange robe and holds a coconut in one hand and a long staff or rod in the other. Behind him a man in white shirt and white trousers walks beside a man in a light shirt holding a green pumpkin-like gourd. Parked white coaches line the left, shop shutters and signboards line the right, and a few more saffron-clad figures walk down the road in the distance. a person is described by the orange robe, long swept-back hair and forehead marking, consistent with the page's account of the yatra start where coconut and pumpkin were broken.2006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22Street scene in New Delhi with a white Rajendra Bus Service coach parked on the roadside, its windows showing seated passengers. In the foreground a smiling man in a saffron-orange shawl and bare chest raises a trident (trishul) overhead; he has long swept-back dark hair and a shawl wrap, and is a person candidate. A man in a blue shirt, jeans and glasses photographs with a camera, and two uniformed men in khaki and light shirts stand nearby. Multistorey buildings, power lines and shop signs line the street.2006-05-22A street scene in a busy Indian city. In the foreground, a bare-backed figure with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron shawl draped around the waist and holds a lit oil lamp or offering plate toward a white tour bus. Behind, a man in white kurta and trousers gestures, a monk in orange robes stands nearby, and a photographer with a camera is visible. Shops, a tourist office, parked cars and an auto-rickshaw line the street. The bus shows a Nithyanandam sticker and a Himalaya Yatra 2006 placard, with a portrait poster on its window. The figure's long swept hair and saffron shawl are visible cues, but the face is not clearly visible; the bare-backed ritual aarti fits the yatra's start.2006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22May 22 20062006-05-22A photograph taken from behind on a city street. A figure with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron wrap over bare shoulders and carries a trident (trishul) in one hand, walking beside a white bus. A narrow street lined with tan multi-storey buildings, shopfronts and signs stretches ahead, with a few parked vehicles and two people in white garments in the distance.2005-05-25