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A four-panel collage of a street protest by devotees in Chennai. Top-left panel: a row of women in saffron and orange sarees holding placards that read "PUT AN END TO RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION" beside a portrait of a saffron-clad figure. Top-right panel: a line of women in saffron sarees and white-clad participants on a roadside holding placards with the same message and a portrait of a saffron-robed figure. Bottom-left panel: a man in a white shirt holds a camera and microphone toward a woman in an orange saree holding a placard. Bottom-right panel: a close view of a woman in an orange saree speaking into a microphone, with a placard showing a saffron-robed portrait and Tamil text beside her. Orange flags and palm trees appear in the background.

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