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Night photograph of a street procession in Tiruvannamalai. A central bearded man in a brown-red robe and a long multicolour flower garland of white, yellow, pink and green blooms, with a brown rudraksha mala and a white forehead marking, holds his hands together in front of his chest and smiles. Around him, several young men in saffron-orange robes and ceremonial necklaces, some with white vibhuti on their foreheads, crowd close. A young man at left in orange wraps a brown shawl and holds a gold lidded vessel. A man in khaki uniform with a red lanyard stands in the foreground, back turned, and a red ATM sign glows above. Watermarked archive image.

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