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November 29 20162016-11-29November 29 20162016-11-29November 29 20162016-11-29A group of drummers performs outdoors on a paved courtyard in front of red multi-storey buildings with air conditioners and trees. Several men play large round drums with leather heads and yellow lacing, one wearing an orange dhoti and sandals. Others wear white dhotis and bare chests with sacred threads, and one player has a red tilak on his forehead. Behind them a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a long wind instrument, while another in red plays a horn. Bystanders stand in the background.2016-11-29Photo 11698534November 29 20162016-11-29 +1 copiesDecember 29 20082008-12-29June 24 20182018-06-24Photo 11698533Photo 11698570Street procession scene with several drummers playing hand drums (thappu/melam-style) on a road. In the foreground, a shirtless young man in a pink lungi with a multicoloured shawl and a bright orange sash plays a drum, and a shirtless man in a yellow-and-green sash and orange cloth plays another drum with a stick. To the right, men in white dhotis and white shirts play drums. Behind them, a crowd in white clothes stands along the roadside, with a bus visible in the background. A man in a checked shirt stands at the left edge.2010-02-18July 21 20102010-07-21