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A photograph taken through a car windshield of a busy Indian town street. A yellow auto-rickshaw is parked at left beside a shop front with a Tamil signboard reading Leela Fancy Hall. A two-wheeler sits near a shop with hanging garlands. In the centre, a decorated festive canopy of red, purple and gold draping and fringe covers a small structure, with banana leaves and cut stalks scattered on the road. A blue domed building and a tall tower rise behind, with large billboards including CIBI Cotton and a QNIDA advertisement. Several pedestrians in dhotis and saris walk on the road, and a cyclist rides at right beside a handcart vendor.

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A dusty street scene in a town market area. Left, a roadside stall displays hanging orange and red garlands and cloth. A signboard reads LEELA FANCY HALL with deity images. In the centre, several people walk across an open dirt plaza, including a man in a checked shirt and white dhoti, a man in white shirt and dhoti tending a large iron cooking vessel on a stand, and women in saris. Auto-rickshaws, bicycles and a white truck are parked nearby. Behind them stands a small domed structure with a blue dome, a tall arch banner, and hoardings showing a portrait of a bearded white-turbaned figure and a smiling man in sunglasses. People are visible, but none are clearly the subject of the scene.2006-09-23A busy street in an Indian town, photographed from a temple doorway. Golden carved temple pillar edges the right foreground, and a golden sculpted figure appears at the bottom. Many pedestrians walk along the road, including a man on a bicycle in a white shirt and trousers and a woman in a pink-orange sari. A yellow auto-rickshaw with a black-and-yellow tag passes on the right. Shops line both sides, selling colourful hanging clothes, textiles and striped cloth, with signboards and posters on the walls.2006-10-23A busy street scene in an Indian town, photographed in daylight from the roadway. Several men in white dhotis and shirts walk along the road and ride motorcycles, including a man in a pink shirt riding pillion behind another rider. Two yellow auto-rickshaws are visible, one at centre and one at right. Shops line both sides with signboards, a green-domed mosque tower stands at upper centre, and a pale temple gopuram rises in the distance at left. Plastic bags and sacks lie on the pavement at left. No one is identifiable as a person and no ritual is shown.2012-07-08May 09 20122012-05-09October 20 20062006-10-20November 10 20112011-11-10January 12 20072007-01-12January 12 20072007-01-12July 08 20122012-07-08September 23 20062006-09-23A street scene in a cyclone-damaged town, with rubble and debris lining the roadside. Several men in white shirts ride red and maroon motorcycles along the road, and a white pickup truck carries a large orange banner with a portrait printed on it. A yellow auto-rickshaw sits at left and another is on the right. A man in a striped shirt and checked lungi walks across the road, while a man in a white shirt smiles in the foreground at right. A yellow temple gopuram with carved figures stands behind the damaged buildings, and a golden statue is visible on a pillar at right. Trees and a blue sky with clouds fill the background.2012-01-06October 23 20062006-10-23