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A street procession in Madurai on an evening in June. In the foreground a bare-chested young man in glasses, with rudraksha malas and a red sacred thread on his arm, wears a white dhoti with a striped border and holds a brass plate of burning oil lamps (aarti) on which a lamp-lit offering is poured. Behind him a green-canopied temple palanquin or cart carries a deity murti decorated with white and pink garlands and flowers, with an orange and purple fringed umbrella overhead. Onlookers stand on a balcony and along the street, one man in white dhoti with hands folded in namaste. Shop signs including SK Lark and Cambridge line the road. Timestamp 06/06/2025 18:23 appears in the corner.

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