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Outdoor street photo in a crowded Tamil Nadu town. A long-haired man in a rust-red sleeveless wrap and a long rudraksha mala, with a red tilak on his forehead, smiles broadly and extends his arm toward the crowd. Around him, many men in white shirts and white dhotis, some with vibhuti and tilak, press close; a bald devotee in glasses stands in the lower left, and a man in an orange cloth is behind on the right. Behind them are a yellow auto-rickshaw, a shop front with a banana plant and a small signboard. The crowd is dense and mostly male, appearing to accompany a procession or yatra.