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A crowd of devotees queues along metal barrier rails on a dusty ground outside a low orange-brick building with a corrugated roof, under young palm trees and a colourful bunting canopy at the top left. A man in a white shirt and dhoti holds a phone to his ear at left, beside a woman in a pink sari; further back, many men in white shirts and dhotis and women in saris and salwar kameez move through the line, some with a white-clad elderly man at right. Children stand among them. The scene suggests an orderly crowd at an annadhan (food-distribution) queue during the Karthikai Deepam celebration at Tiruvannamalai.

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November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27A crowd of devotees queues along metal barricade rails at an outdoor festival site with palm trees and a brick building behind them. Men in white dhotis and shirts and women in saris stand in line, one woman raises a hand, and a young woman in a pink sari with an orange border carries a metal plate of food on the left. A wooden pole is lashed to the barrier on the right.2012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27 +2 copiesNovember 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27A long queue of people stands on a dirt ground beside a white-walled building and tall palm trees under a pale sky. Many are dressed in white, including men in white shirts and dhotis and women in white saris. Others wear saris in green, red, pink, blue and yellow, and one man in a plaid shirt stands further back. Several women hold their hands together, and a man in a white shirt is near the front. The line runs from the left foreground toward the back of the scene.2006-12-26November 27 20122012-11-27November 27 20122012-11-27 +1 copiesNovember 27 20122012-11-27