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Night street scene in Madurai outside a KAILASA Madurai storefront, with a decorated wooden chariot or palanquin at left draped in white cloth and garlanded with white and yellow flowers, carrying a deity murti. A large illuminated sign above the entrance shows a golden deity image and the name kailasa madu... in Tamil and English. At right, a gold-ornamented doorway frames a golden deity figure. Several men stand and sit along the street; one bare-chested man with a white cloth and folded hands stands near the center, a seated man in a white shirt holds a mobile phone, and a man in an orange turban stands at right near a flame. Shops behind display metal vessels and utensils, and a sign reads Sankar Metals, Vessels Sales. Lamps and a torch-like flame light the procession.