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Night street scene at a temple entrance with a lit deity shrine in a gopuram-style niche above a yellow banner with Tamil lettering. To the right, a decorated palanquin or ratha with gold drapery and a garlanded deity murti is being moved. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis stand around it, some reaching toward the palanquin. On the left a man in a red jacket and helmet sits on a motorcycle, and a child in a grey shirt and dhoti stands nearby. Blurred motion and dark trees fill the background. No clearly visible white-clad person can be identified as a person.

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A night street scene outside a temple shrine in Tamil Nadu. A decorated deity idol stands in a shrine on the right, heavily garlanded with flower strings and lit by a lamp. Several men in white shirts and dhotis and a few in checked or patterned shirts stand gathered in the road, facing the shrine. A man sits on a silver motorcycle in the foreground, and a white car with headlights on is at the left edge. A smaller lit shrine with a carved figure stands on the left.2006-11-04Night photograph of a street procession in front of a temple-style building with a lit yellow awning and an illuminated deity relief above it. A row of men in white shirts and dhotis stand along the road, some holding cameras or papers, while a richly decorated float or palanquin with gold and red drapery and flowers is lit on the right. Tamil signage appears on the awning. Several onlookers and a child in a grey shirt and dhoti stand at the left. Blurred motion and streetlights mark an evening ratha procession.2006-11-04November 01 20062006-11-01November 04 20062006-11-04Night photo of a procession on a dark street in Chennai. On the left a lit ratha or palanquin carries gilded deity figures in yellow and gold, one standing and one seated in blue, under a street lamp. Around it several people in white clothes walk and stand, and a bright red light glows on a vehicle at right.2006-11-01November 04 20062006-11-04November 01 20062006-11-01October 23 20062006-10-23Night photograph of a ratha yatra procession in a crowded street. At the centre, a golden ornate temple chariot carries a deity murti decorated with yellow and green garlands, lit by bright lights, with a dark umbrella held above it. Devotees in white dhotis and shirts crowd around, and several men in white stand on a wall on the right edge. A blue illuminated sign with Tamil script sits atop the chariot. The timestamp reads 29 22:18.2006-10-29December 02 20172017-12-02Night photograph of a crowded temple entrance with a lit gopuram-style shrine above a yellow Tamil-script signboard. A man in a white shirt with a rudraksha mala and a red mark on his forehead stands near the centre-right, looking toward the camera, while others in yellow and white shirts and saris crowd around the doorway. Oil lamps and illuminated lights glow over the scene, and a deity murti is set in the niche above the entrance.2006-11-01Evening photograph inside a temple corridor with dark stone pillars and a gated walkway. A central figure in a saffron-orange robe and a long garland of white flowers, with a white tilak on the forehead and a rudraksha-style mala, stands with hands together, flanked by men in white dhotis and shirts and a lamp-holding attendant. Two uniformed police officers in khaki stand nearby, and a raised platform with a white-draped figure is behind the crowd. a person is the central figure in orange robes and garland, shown with a crowd-control escort during the temple visit.2009-07-13