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April 26 2012

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January 03 20162016-01-03Night-time photo inside a covered open hall of a temple-like space. At centre, a priest in orange robe stands behind a decorated wooden cart with a colourful canopy of red, blue, yellow and white panels and orange tassels, holding a lit lamp above a deity murti in a blue garment with a floral garland. Offerings, a kalasha-like vessel and a white fan sit on the cart. Around it, people with palms pressed together in namaste, including men in white dhoti and women in white or orange saris, watch in prayer. Orange pennant strings hang overhead. A shaved-headed man in white kurta with a rudraksha mala stands at left, and smoke or haze drifts through the dim space. Ritual worship of a cart-mounted deity.2010-11-19Night procession on a sandy ground with devotees in white dhotis and kurtas and orange shawls pulling a green wheeled cart. The cart carries a deity murti decorated with a red, green and white arched frame, a magenta cloth and a red canopy overhead. Several men in front tug the ropes while others walk alongside, some carrying a drum and a small brass item. Most of the figures are men, with a few women in white saris and orange shawls among them.2007-09-24Night procession inside a covered hall with a corrugated metal roof and red steel posts, decorated with hanging striped and tasselled cloth banners. In the foreground a man in orange dhoti and orange shawl walks beside a decorated festival cart pulled by a red tractor, its load draped in garlands and a deity murti visible on a golden canopy. Another orange-clad man in front leads the way. Crowded on the right, devotees stand in rows, several in white dhotis, saris in pink and purple, and orange garments, many with hands folded in prayer. A bright oil lamp held by a hand is visible at the lower right edge. Roughly thirty people are visible.2012-04-26Night procession of a richly decorated chariot (ratha) on a dirt road, lit from within, with a deity murti in a canopied shrine with garlands. Men in orange and white dhotis, some bare-chested, pull the wooden poles of the ratha, while a woman in an orange sari guides the front. A crowd of devotees in white and pastel saris and white clothing walks behind, some with hands folded. A small child in an orange striped shirt stands at the left. A corrugated roof and tree stand in the background.2011-12-17November 21 20102010-11-21January 13 20152015-01-13January 03 20162016-01-03November 14 20132013-11-14April 26 20122012-04-26Night photo of a decorated ratha-style palanquin under a open-sided pavilion hung with colourful festoons and tassels. Inside the shrine a deity murti is garlanded with flowers and dressed in a blue cloth. A man in an orange cloth holds up a lamp or aarti flame before the murti. Devotees stand around in white dhotis and white saris, several in orange and pink, hands folded in anjali. A young man in white with a tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala stands in the front left with palms pressed together. Brass vessels sit on the platform beside the offerings.2010-11-19January 1st 2013