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A street scene outside a South Indian temple in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A tall, ornately sculpted gopuram (temple tower) rises behind a row of small shops with shuttered fronts, including Sri Ambal Jewellery signs. Vendors sit and display produce on blue tarpaulins at the curb, while cyclists, motorbikes and yellow auto-rickshaws move along the road. A palm tree stands at right beside a long temple wall painted in red and white stripes, with another gopuram beyond it under a cloudy sky.

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