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A busy street scene in an Indian town with buses, autorickshaws and pedestrians crowding the road in the foreground. Behind them rises a bare granite rock hill, and at its base stands a colourful multi-tiered gopuram temple tower covered in painted deity figures, with golden kalasha finials on top. Overhead hang tangled power lines and street lamps. A large blue-and-white bus with the lettering 'M A A' is at right, and a blue bus marked 'ROSAR' sits in the centre. Several people walk or stand along the roadside, mostly in everyday clothes such as shirts, saris and dhotis. No ritual activity is visible.

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