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A busy street scene in front of a temple with a tall, ornately carved gopuram tower behind a white-walled entrance and a broad stone staircase. On the left, a wooden-roofed shop front with hanging cloths and a canopy displays goods. Pedestrians walk across the road, including a man in a white shirt and a woman in a green sari carrying a bag. Motorcycles and scooters are parked along the right, beside a white car in the foreground and a yellow sign with Tamil text. Several people in white dhotis and mixed dress move around the courtyard steps.

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November 10 20062006-11-10A street scene in front of a South Indian temple with a tall, carved gopuram tower and a white-walled entrance with a pillared arched doorway. A wide stone staircase leads up to the entrance, where several people in white and dhoti are walking. In the foreground, a woman in a red top and white shawl carries a bag past parked motorcycles, while street vendors with colourful cloth stalls line the left side. A yellow sign reads LATRINE and a Tamil-script public toilet sign hangs on the right. Visible people number roughly a dozen.2006-11-09Street view of a South Indian temple entrance with a tall stone gopuram carved with figures above a whitewashed gateway and a long granite staircase leading up to the arched doorway. Several people walk in the foreground and on the steps, including a woman in a white sari and a man in white. Shops with hanging cloth and a parked row of motorcycles line the lower area. A large yellow sign reads LATRINE in English, with Malayalam script above and Hindi-style Devanagari below. Inside the picture the scene is daytime and outdoors.2006-11-10A photograph of a tall, ornately carved stone gopuram, a temple gateway tower, rising in tiers. Its surface is densely covered with sculpted figures, deities and decorative motifs, weathered and partly green with growth. A small golden kalasha finials crown the top, and a dark arched doorway sits at its base beneath a stone entrance. To the left, a low tiled roof of a traditional wooden-and-clay building is visible, with pale sky above and a tree and power lines at the right edge. No people are visible.2006-11-09A photograph of a tall, ornately sculpted white gopuram, the tiered entrance tower of a South Indian temple, rising above a street scene. Its face is densely carved with rows of deity and figure reliefs, topped by small finials. In the foreground, a white vehicle stands at the left beside a stall display of flowers, fruit and offerings laid out on a low platform, and a white shrine-like structure sits at the gate. A palm tree grows beside the tower, with overhead power lines crossing the sky. No people are clearly visible.A street scene in front of a tall, ornately carved gopuram-style temple gateway in Kerala, with a wooden-roofed building on the left. Several people walk across a paved road among parked cars, including a white Ambassador-style taxi and a red vehicle. Women wear saris in blue, red, and white, and a man in a light shirt walks in the foreground. A roadside stall with a blue awning stands at the right edge. Palm trees and a street lamp line the background under a pale sky.2006-11-10A photograph of a temple street scene dominated by a tall, whitewashed gopuram (temple tower) covered in sculpted deity figures and rising above a low roofline. In the foreground two men walk away from the camera, wearing white dhotis and white shirts with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders; one carries a dark shoulder bag. To the left, a motorcycle rider and other passersby move along a dirt road beside a colonnaded pavilion with a small coloured shrine tower. On the right, a thatched-roof shop front displays colourful signboards, and an elderly man in a striped shirt stands at the edge of the frame. Overhead, power lines cross a pale sky and trees frame the scene.2009-01-29December 08 20112011-12-08Outdoor photo at a large stone temple gopuram with carved sculptures and an open gateway, a blue canopy tent and a palm tree at left. A group walks across a pale paved courtyard in bright sunlight. In the centre, a man in white dhoti and shirt faces away. To the right, a bald man in a grey shirt and light trousers gestures while walking beside a woman in an orange saffron sari and several men in white dhotis and shirts, one with a white shawl. Other devotees and visitors in mixed clothing move around the courtyard.2011-12-08A photograph of a large white gopuram, a tiered temple tower, rising on the left beside a street market in front of a temple colonnade. The colonnade on the right has grey stone pillars and a roofline crowded with painted sculptures in green, red and yellow. Below, street vendors sell metal pots, lamps and bronze wares from stalls. A red-saried woman stands near a man in a red-and-white checked shirt, and a man squats among the wares. A motorbike is parked at left, and a hill rises behind the temple.2012-07-08January 12 20072007-01-12July 08 20122012-07-08