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Two men in white dhotis and shawls, faces and bodies smeared with pink and yellow colour powder, perform an aarti at night in front of an ochre brick wall. The man on the left, bare-chested with a rudraksha mala, holds a silver lamp with a lit flame and a bell in his other hand. The man on the right, also white-clad with colour on his arms, holds a brass tray with a green container. A woman in glasses and an orange sari stands behind, and a garlanded deity murti with red flowers appears at the right edge.

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January 1st 2013December 15 20112011-12-15Night photograph at an outdoor shrine beside stone statues of deities, one with a garland of white and orange flowers draped over it. A bare-chested young man with his back to the camera, wearing a white dhoti-style cloth stained with pink and yellow powder, gestures toward the statues. To the right, another young man in a white cloth with a gold border holds a brass oil lamp with a lit flame and a small metal vessel. Both have pink and yellow powder on their skin, and the background is dark foliage.A night-time photograph of a group of men in white ritual dhotis and shawls gathered under a corrugated roof, holding their hands together in prayer or reaching toward a lit oil lamp. A man in an orange-saffron garment with a tall ornate crown, a gold-beaded necklace and rudraksha-style beads holds the brass lamp with a bright flame, passing it among devotees; smoke rises above the flame. Several men wear white dhotis with sandalwood or vibhuti marks on their foreheads and rudraksha malas. The setting suggests a lamp-lighting ritual, possibly a Kartheekai Deepam aarti.2010-11-21Photograph of a shaved-headed priest in white dhoti and white shawl with gold border, wearing a long beaded necklace of gold-toned beads, holding a silver tray with a multi-flame silver aarti lamp, the flames rising and smoke drifting. Behind him another priest in white and a younger man in saffron-orange robes with a beaded necklace stand in an orange-walled courtyard. A hand at the left edge holds a bell-like object. The priest with the aarti lamp is not an identifiable a person candidate by the given cues, so this is an aarti ritual by priests and devotees.2011-12-01A night-time aarti at an outdoor evening event lit by coloured bulbs. A young man in a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala and red-beaded necklace holds a silver multi-wick oil lamp on a tray, flames rising, and offers it to a group. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis stand with palms joined or hands raised, some wearing lanyards and tilak. No individual candidate for a person is clearly identifiable, so the a person field is unsure.2015-11-18November 18 20152015-11-18April 06 20172017-04-06April 06 20172017-04-06August 02 20172017-08-02Photograph of a temple ritual with three priests in white dhotis and shawls. The priest on the left, wearing a gold ceremonial necklace, holds a silver tray with a burning oil lamp and a small bell. The central priest wears a rudraksha mala and a sandalwood-marked forehead, and the priest on the right holds a large ornate silver pot with a lid, with smoke rising from the lamp. A fourth man, partly visible at the lower right in white, kneels or bends over. The background is a red-orange wall with a dark board. This appears to be a puja or abhishekam scene.2011-11-01A photograph of a shaved-headed priest seated on a red and green striped mat, holding a brass plate of burning camphor or ghee flame at the centre. He wears white dhoti and shawl with gold borders, a rudraksha mala, a red bindi and white vibhuti stripes on his forehead and arms. Beside him, another priest in white clothes with rudraksha beads sits with a bell. Yellow marigold flowers and a brass pot lie in the foreground, with a broom at the bottom right.2013-12-19