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A photograph of a busy urban street in an Indian town, taken from an upper floor. Multi-storey buildings in pastel blue, cream and pink line the road, with shuttered shopfronts and a long colonnaded old building with a terracotta tiled roof. Traffic includes yellow auto-rickshaws, a yellow flatbed truck, a white van, motorcycles and bicycles. Several pedestrians walk along the pavement, including a man in a white shirt near the centre and a man in a grey shirt at the lower right. Overhead power lines cross the scene. A blue sign reads TSM Nithyanam, and a pink building stands on the right.

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A busy street in an Indian town viewed from an upper floor. Two-wheelers, a yellow tuk-tuk auto-rickshaw, a small yellow pickup truck and a silver SUV travel along the road, and a cow walks on the left past a man in white. Pedestrians and riders are scattered along the roadside. Older colonnaded buildings with red-tiled roofs, arched windows and shuttered shopfronts line the street beside pastel-painted houses, with overhead power lines crossing above. A pink building and a Tamil-script signboard appear to the right.2012-07-08 +1 copies1988 - The SPH's premonastic home and street in TiruvannamalaiA street scene in a town with a hillside behind low buildings. On the left a yellow auto-rickshaw and several motorcyclists ride along the road, and a few pedestrians walk on the pavement. Shuttered shop fronts line the street, including a yellow-fronted mobile phone shop with a blue sign, and a shop with a sign reading H.R. Electrical Store. A tall gopuram temple tower rises behind the buildings near the centre. Overhead electric wires cross the scene. A man in white clothing rides a bicycle at the lower right, and a few people stand at the right edge.2012-07-08A busy town street in daylight under an overcast sky, with a paved road running toward the distance. A woman in a pale yellow sari walks beside a green bicycle on the left. A man in a white shirt rides a motorcycle down the middle of the road. Several parked motorcycles and white vans line the roadside. On the right, a low building has a sign reading Sri Arunachala Auto Service, and walls are covered with faded film and advertising posters. Power lines cross overhead above multi-storey concrete buildings and a yellow-painted block.2012-07-08A photograph of a quiet street in a small town at the foot of a rocky hill. Shopfronts line the road, including a shop sign reading T.S.M. Mobiles and another signboard in Tamil script on a building with a blue-green awning. A bicycle rider in a white shirt rides on the road, a man in dark clothes walks along the pavement, and a cyclist with a handcart passes below. Overhead utility wires cross the street, and a gopuram-like temple tower rises behind the buildings at right.2012-07-08A street scene in a South Indian town shows a yellow-walled shop front with a painted sign in Tamil script, its painted emblem depicting a temple gopuram against green hills. Shuttered shops with blue and teal fronts line the road, with a black sedan parked at right and a blurred motorcycle carrying bulky white sacks in the foreground. Several pedestrians and riders are visible further along the street, including a man in a white shirt and a figure in a white dhoti. A utility pole and power lines cross the scene, and a small motorcycle is parked by the open doorway at left.2012-07-08A busy street in a coastal Tamil Nadu town on a cloudy day. A white van with a roof rack leads a line of traffic, followed by motorcycles and a flatbed truck. Two men ride motorcycles in the middle lane, one wearing a dark shirt and the other a light shirt. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks, and a man in a lungi stands at left. Shopfronts display painted signs, including one reading Cape Hotel, and billboards with pictures on the right. Two yellow auto-rickshaws sit at the right edge. Power lines and streetlights run overhead, with trees lining the far road.2006-10-27A busy street in a South Indian town with a wide paved road running through the centre. Pedestrians walk across the road, including a man in a white dhoti and a woman in a green sari. Several black motorcycles are parked on the right beside a row of shops, and yellow auto-rickshaws sit on the left. A white minibus stands in the middle distance. Tall trees line the left side, and utility poles with overhead wires run along the road. A large billboard on the right shows portraits of men, though the figures are too small to judge clearly. Power lines and a low hill appear in the distance under an overcast sky.2012-05-09 +1 copiesJuly 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08 +1 copiesOctober 26 20062006-10-26A wet, rain-slicked town street in Tamil Nadu with shops on both sides, blue and white storefronts, a tall gopuram temple tower with painted sculpted figures on the upper right, and a white van and a white hatchback car in the foreground. Yellow auto-rickshaws and a few cyclists travel down the road, and several pedestrians stand or walk along the left sidewalk, some in white dhotis and saris. Hanging signboards and banners in Tamil script line the street under overhead power lines and a cloudy grey sky. No ritual or a person depicted; the scene is a street view on the procession route.2006-10-27