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A street procession in a crowded Tamil Nadu market lane shows a decorated wooden palanquin carrying two garlanded deity murtis dressed in red cloth with gold crowns, under a large orange-and-purple fringed canopy. Men in dhotis carry the palanquin on long wooden poles, and a man in a white vest waves a fan of palm-leaf or feather whisk. In the foreground, two people in saffron/orange cloth, one a woman with a braid, look on from the side. Shop fronts, signboards and hanging wires line the street, and a timestamp reads 07/06/2025 18:29.

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