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A busy street in a small South Indian town with a large rocky hill rising behind the buildings. Pedestrians walk along the road, including two women in saris, one in pink and one in maroon, and two men in lungis, one in a striped shirt. A silver hatchback car is parked on the road beside parked motorbikes. Colourful shopfronts, a red-and-blue building and a "PM Lodge Vethval Restaurant" sign line the street, and a gopuram-like tower with painted sculptures stands on the hillside.

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A busy street in a South Indian town, with pedestrians walking along the roadway between painted multi-storey buildings in blue, red and pink. A rocky granite hill rises behind the buildings. A gopuram tower of a temple with painted deity figures is visible in the middle distance. Men in white dhotis and shirts and women in saris, including one in pink and one in purple, walk past parked cars and motorcycles, and a girl in a yellow and purple dress stands at the right edge. Shop signs and a sign reading PALLODGE on a blue building are visible. No recognisable person is identified.2012-05-09A busy street in Madurai leads toward a tall, colourful gopuram of a South Indian temple set against a large rocky hill. Vehicles, a parked motorcycle, and several pedestrians in white and saffron-toned clothing move along the road. Shops, banners and signboards line both sides, including an advertisement showing a woman in a red sari with gold jewellery. Two women in saris and a few men stand or walk near the stalls at the right edge. No identifiable a person appearance is visible in this street scene.2012-05-09A street view of a busy Tamil town leading to a richly painted gopuram, the tiered temple tower of Madurai's Meenakshi-Sundareshwara complex, its tiers covered in colourful sculpted deities in red, blue, yellow and green. Behind it rises a large rocky hill with a small shrine on top. Pedestrians walk along the road, including a man in a white dhoti and shirt and a few people in white and pale clothing. A yellow three-wheeled auto-rickshaw with a passenger in white sits in the foreground, and a man in a white dhoti stands near it. Shops line both sides, with motorcycles, parked cars and bicycles on the road, and a stall displays colourful toys and garlands.2012-05-09A street scene in a Tamil town before a colourfully painted South Indian temple gopuram, its tiers packed with painted deity and figure sculptures, rising in front of a large rocky hill. Pedestrians in white dhotis and saris walk along the road, a silver minivan and motorcycles are parked at left, and a yellow auto-rickshaw passes. Shops line both sides, with a woman in a green sari and a man in a white shirt at a street stall on the right. Signs advertise jewellery and banking, and a red and white bank sign hangs above the road.2012-05-09May 09 20122012-05-09Street scene in a South Indian town with a tall, brightly painted gopuram of a temple rising at center, its tiers covered in colourful sculpted deities and painted figures, with a rocky hill behind it. In the foreground, a woman in a teal and orange patterned sari walks past a parked motorbike, while a group of men and women, several in orange or red dhotis and saris, walk along the road; one man carries a small child on his hip. Shops, a hoarding showing a woman's face and roadside signs line the street, and utility poles and wires run overhead.2012-05-09A busy street in a South Indian town, photographed from inside a moving silver SUV with a rear spare tyre cover and Karnataka plate KA04NN 4444. Pedestrians in white dhotis, a woman in a yellow sari carrying a bundle on her head, and a woman in a red and pink sari walk along the roadside. Motorcycles, including a red one ridden by a man in a checked shirt, crowd the lane. Shopfronts display signs such as Vignesh Jewellers and red banners, and a rocky hill rises in the background.2011-11-10May 09 20122012-05-09A photograph of a busy town street in Tiruvannamalai with a low, rocky hill rising behind rooftops and shopfronts. On the right, a blue-and-teal shopfront carries a large Tamil-script signboard, with an iron shutter and a blue rolling shutter beyond. A woman in a pink sari and a woman in a green sari with a small child walk along the pavement, carrying a blue bag. On the left, a man in a white shirt and a porter with a large sack on his head walk past a motorcycle and bicycles, and posters are pasted on the walls. The scene is an ordinary street life view with no a person or ritual activity visible.2012-07-08A street scene in front of a richly painted gopuram, the tiered temple tower of a South Indian temple, rising in front of a rocky hill. The tower is decorated with colourful sculpted deities in bright pinks, blues, greens and golds, topped by golden kalasha finials. Pedestrians walk along the road, including a bare-chested man in a white dhoti and a woman in a pink sari. A man in a white dhoti stands at right beside a green and yellow TSR truck, and a man on a motorcycle rides past at left. Shops line both sides of the road, with a vendor's cart of colourful balloons and toys at right. Several people are visible, roughly a dozen.2012-05-09May 09 20122012-05-09A busy street in a South Indian town leading toward a large gopuram temple tower set against a hill. Two men walk on the road, one in a white shirt and dark trousers, another in a white shirt and white dhoti. Several women in dark saris walk down the middle of the street, and motorcycles and a cow are visible. On the right stands a small colourful roadside shrine with deity figures on a pale blue and gold roof. Shop signs and hoardings line both sides, including a sign with Tamil text and a banner with an image of men in white.2012-07-08