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April 27 2008

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A street procession in a town, with a crowd of men and women in white traditional clothing and dhotis moving along a road. Several men play large hand drums, one wearing a white head cloth. Many people hold tall orange flags bearing a black emblem, and orange and yellow bunting is strung across the street. Shops and a multi-storey building with balconies line the roadside under a pale sky.2008-04-27A street procession on a busy town road with shopfronts and strings of orange-and-yellow pennant bunting overhead. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts, some wearing white head cloths, play large cylindrical drums held at their sides, while a woman in a cream sari with a gold border stands on the left. Orange flags are raised among the crowd, and a man in a white shirt with grey hair faces away from the camera, raising a hand. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2008-04-27Street 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.2010-02-18A village street procession in Tamil Nadu. Several bare-chested drummers in white dhotis with turquoise sashes across their shoulders play large barrel drums slung from their necks, striking them with sticks. Onlookers stand along the roadside in front of low tiled-roof buildings. A framed portrait of a bald man in white is hung on a pole in the background, and a flag flies from a bamboo pole on the left. Painted Tamil-script signage is visible on the buildings. A multi-storey brick building stands on the right.2008-07-28December 29 20082008-12-29May 09 20122012-05-09 +1 copiesJune 19 20142014-06-19 +1 copiesA street procession in an Indian town. Drummers and musicians in red shirts and white dhotis play drums and other percussion on the road, while a bare-chested man in a saffron shawl and white dhoti beats a large drum at left. Orange and white bunting strings across shopfronts with tiled roofs, and orange flags fly from poles at right. Banners and hoardings hang on the shop walls, and a few onlookers in white stand nearby under trees and power lines.July 28 20082008-07-28 +1 copiesSeptember 24 20062006-09-24A street procession in a south Indian town moves along a paved road lined with shops and parked bicycles. Men in white dhotis and shirts, some barefoot, play drums and wind instruments, including a horn and a long pipe. Orange flags rise above the crowd, and ornate canopy umbrellas with red, blue and orange panels are carried above the procession. A man in a white shirt wears a saffron/orange shawl over his shoulder and walks at the front. Behind the procession, a large banner with Tamil lettering hangs from a pole. Pedestrians stand along the roadside, and a tall pyramid-shaped temple tower rises in the background among trees and utility poles.2008-08-01November 29 20162016-11-29