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Community members eating lunch on the picnic tables outside the temple. |
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Community members eating lunch on the picnic tables outside the temple. |
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One of several tents set up outside the main temple to accommodate the thousands of attendees. |
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Intergeneration community members. |
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Two friends tying Raksha Bhandan thread (a symbolic affirmation and establishment of family and social relationship) on each other's wrists. |
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Community members enjoying dinner in the tent. |
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Two young boy-scout volunteers resting after helping collect twigs for the havan (auspicious invocation of fire). |
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Attentive volunteers and organizers. |
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Children dressed in colorful Indian clothes eager to participate in the ceremony. |
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Children dressed in colorful Indian clothes eager to participate in the ceremony. |
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Children dressed in colorful Indian clothes eager to participate in the ceremony. |
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Dr. Krishnamurthy, a learned scholar and professor, came from India to attend the opening ceremony. Here he is explaining the meaning and purpose of the rituals. |
