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February 07 2017

A night street scene in Tiruvannamalai outside a blue-roofed building with a gopuram-like temple tower rising behind it. A yellow auto-rickshaw sits at left beside a man in a red head cloth. Several women in saris, including orange and yellow ones, sit on a bench and steps under a blue and white banner reading in Tamil, with a VIP Car Parking sign and a small portrait poster nearby. Pedestrians and a man in a light shirt and white dhoti walk across the street, with power lines overhead.

Night street photograph of a busy Tamil Nadu town road with lit shopfronts, parked motorbikes and a white car with headlights. Many people walk along the road in motion blur, including men in white shirts and dhotis, a woman in a red sari, a woman in a blue sari, and women in green and yellow saris in the foreground. A man in a striped polo shirt stands at left and a man in a checked shirt walks beside a cyclist. The stalls display fruit and goods. A tilak mark is visible on one young man's forehead.

Night street scene during a procession in a busy Indian town. A large crowd of men and women walks past shopfronts and a white minibus with headlights on. Many men wear white shirts and white dhotis, some with white forehead markings, while women wear bright saris in yellow, red and pink. At right, a decorated temple-car or ratha structure is lit with string lights and marigold garlands. Shop signs and a banner line the street. a person is not visibly identifiable in this image.

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Night photograph of a crowded temple precinct lit with strings of lights and illuminated gopuram-style structures. A figure seen from behind, with curly dark hair, wears an orange-and-gold saree and stands near a man in white with folded hands, a vermilion mark on his forehead. Many devotees and onlookers in white shirts, blue and purple salwar kameez crowd the pathway. A blue and yellow signboard appears at right. A person with long swept-back hair and orange saffron clothing appears among those gathered, consistent with the page's claim of a visit to the Arunachaleshwara Temple during Karthikai Deepam.

Evening crowd at the East Tower Entrance of a South Indian temple, beneath a long white canopy with red and blue trim and hanging floral strings. Devotees and men in white dhotis and shirts move through metal barricades, and a uniformed police officer stands at the right. A woman in a red sari and another in a pink sari walk near the center, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti stands among them. Green and white directional signs point to the entrance, with a Tamil-language sign reading East Tower Entrance on a board. Illuminated pillars and a lit inner hall are visible beyond.

A night street procession in a city lane, with a crowd of devotees gathered beside a decorated palanquin-style ratha carrying deity murti. The chariot is draped in red and white garlands and lit by a bright bulb. In the foreground, a man in white shirt and trousers wears a rudraksha mala and gold bracelet, facing the procession with his hands by his sides. Nearby, women in blue and teal saris stand close to the cart, and a shops with signage line the left side under a dark sky.

Night photograph of a crowd walking along a lane beside a temple wall at Tiruvannamalai during a girivalam-style circumambulation. Devotees wear white dhotis and shirts, several with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and some women wear pink, purple and maroon saris. A uniformed official in khaki stands among the group. Dim street lamps light the scene, and a lit temple gateway glows in the background. A man at the centre is slightly apart from the crowd, and a woman in pink holds a child at the lower right. No individual can be identified as a person from appearance in this image.

Night photograph of a busy street with a crowd of people walking past street lamps and a white van with a purple flashing light. In the foreground, a woman in a white sari with a gold border and a brown leopard-print handbag holds an open booklet with a printed portrait on its cover and a small ID card on her blouse; she has a red bindi and sandalwood-coloured forehead marks. Behind her a woman in a blue patterned sari and a man in a white shirt and beige dhoti walk, and a man in a red shawl and blue lungi stands at right beside a table of water bottles.