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May 16 20122012-05-16A village street in Kanjanoor, Tamil Nadu, leading toward a tall, multi-tiered gopuram temple tower painted in blue, red, yellow and green with ornate sculpted figures and a finial of spires at the top. Men in shirts, trousers and lungis walk along the dusty road, and a yellow bus and white vehicles are parked or moving on the street, with a silver SUV at right. Thatched huts and palm trees line the roadside under hazy sky and overhead wires.2012-05-16A dusty village street in Kanjanur, Tamil Nadu, leads toward a tall, colourful gopuram of a South Indian temple with tiers of painted deities and finials. Tiled and thatched houses line the left side. Men walk along the road, one in an orange-and-white striped shirt and another in a white shirt and white dhoti. Vehicles fill the road, including a light-blue bus at right, a white SUV and a yellow van, with a uniformed officer standing near the bus. Trees and utility poles frame the hazy sky.2012-05-16May 16 20122012-05-16A photograph of a colourful multi-tiered South Indian gopuram temple gateway painted in blue, green and yellow with carved sculptural panels, rising above a tall orange-red dhwajastambha flagstaff. In the foreground a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a yellow border walks along a sandy path toward the entrance, while a small group of people stands near the gate and two uniformed police officers in khaki stand on the grass. A white public bus with lettering is parked to the left beside palm trees. No identifiable a person figure is visible in the scene.2012-05-18Photograph of the colourful multi-tiered gopuram entrance tower of Kanjanoor Agniswarar Temple in Tamil Nadu, its painted sculptures of deities, animals and kalasha finials rising above a stone gateway. In front, a crowd of people in white dhotis, saris and uniformed police stand on the street beside parked motorcycles and a white SUV, with a woman in a black-and-white outfit drinking from a cup at left. A printed banner hangs beside the gate.2012-05-16May 16 20122012-05-16May 15 20182018-05-15A street photograph of a busy Tamil Nadu town at a temple procession. On the right, a tall gopuram covered in painted deity sculptures in multiple colours rises above the street. On the left, a smaller colourful temple gateway stands beside a crowd of people in the foreground, some wearing white and orange. Overhead tangled power and telephone lines cross the sky. A blue sign reads in Tamil and English naming a temple hall and a road direction, and a red and white advertisement for First Flight Couriers hangs on a utility pole. Thatched shade and a blue umbrella sit at street level, with a white vehicle and parked motorcycles among the crowd. The photo is dated 22 10 2006 in red numerals.2006-10-22May 18 20122012-05-18A street view in a Tamil Nadu town shows a tall, richly sculpted South Indian temple gopuram covered in painted deity figures and carvings, rising above low shops and buildings. In the foreground, a silver Ford SUV with Karnataka registration KA 04 MN 4444 is stopped in traffic. Several men in white shirts and dhotis walk along the roadside past a hotel sign reading Hotel Sabanayagam, with colourful cloth hanging from a stall at left. No one is clearly identifiable as a person.2009-08-11May 16 20122012-05-16 +1 copies