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A photograph of three devotees sweeping a brick-paved courtyard with long straw brooms. The woman at left wears a white sari and a teal surgical mask and sweeps with a broom. The central figure wears a white head wrap, white kurta and white trousers, with a sash and blue shoes, carrying a broom and a bottle. The woman at right wears a white sari with a red blouse and a teal cap and mask, sweeping at the base of a yellow ochre colonnade with white-painted pillars. Dust and debris lie on the stone plinth and ground.

A man in white kurta and white pants sweeps a large tiled hall with a long broom, walking barefoot across the floor. Behind him several people in white clothing stand and move about near wooden doors, a water dispenser and a metal urn on a side table. One woman wears an orange shawl and another wears a white outfit with a red and orange patterned skirt. A white draped ceiling valance runs along the upper wall. The scene suggests ashram housekeeping, with the hall being cleaned during a program setting.

Three people in plain white clothing sweep a stone-paved temple courtyard with long bundled brooms. The person on the left wears a white head-wrap, white kurta and a mint-green face mask, and holds a broom upright. The woman in the centre wears a white top, white trousers, a white head-wrap and a mint-green mask, and grips a broom while a cloth shoulder bag hangs at her side. The person on the right, in white with a green mask, bends low to sweep near a pillar. Behind them, a child in red stands near an elder in white. Weathered stone columns with carved bases and a covered colonnade frame the scene, with a rope lying on the ground.

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July 27 2013

A construction-site photograph under a corrugated roof at an ashram building in progress. A man in white clothes bends forward sweeping the concrete floor with a broom, while another man in white stands behind holding a long broom handle. A long-haired figure in an orange-saffron dhoti with a red border stands at right, hands folded at the waist, wearing orange-brown sandals and a shawl over one shoulder, looking toward the workers. Another person in white and a figure in orange stand at the right edge. In the foreground are scattered red bricks, grey concrete blocks, and bare red earth. Stacked woven mats rest on a concrete wall at left.

Devotees sit cross-legged on striped mats in a hall during a seated prayer. A woman in the centre-left wears white and holds her palms together at her chest with eyes closed, with a rudraksha mala around her neck. Beside her a woman in white sits with hands folded on her lap. On the right, a woman in a yellow blouse and white sari holds her palms joined in namaste, with a bindi and bangles. A blurred figure in a teal top sits in the foreground. Small oil lamps and a notebook rest on the mat near the bottom.

A photograph of an unfinished open-sided construction site under a tin roof. A man in white kurta and dhoti sweeps a wet concrete floor with a blue-handled squeegee-style broom, barefoot. Beside him a woman in a red-and-beige sari with a light shawl stands near the wall. On the right, a long-haired man in an orange saffron dhoti and shawl with a red border, wearing a rudraksha mala and orange sandals, holds a long bamboo-handled tool and stands among bricks and loose red soil. Stacks of grey concrete blocks and bricks lie on the ground, and a framed portrait hangs on the back wall.

September 02 2011

Two people clean a stone-pillared temple corridor. On the left, a figure in a white shirt, cream trousers, a teal surgical cap and face mask, and a dark beaded mala sweeps the floor with a broom made of dried palm fronds. On the right, a person in a white dhoti with gold border and a teal cap and mask bends over with a hose, washing the stone floor beside a pillar carved with floral motifs. Dry leaves and debris lie on the ground near the wall.

Several women sit cross-legged on a polished floor in a hall with red curtains, pressing their palms together in prayer with eyes closed. Foreground women wear white salwar-style outfits with orange shawls and bangles; others in the row wear white with yellow shawls. A water bottle, a small container and a few books sit on the floor at left. No identifiable a person figure is visible.