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A crowded evening street scene outside a shop front in a South Indian market, with a dense queue of devotees and onlookers pressing around a wooden counter. A shaved-headed man in a white dhoti and bare chest stands at the counter in the foreground, receiving items from a woman in a red and green sari. Nearby, a bald man with a beaded necklace and a crowd of men and women in colourful saris and shirts, some wearing face masks, wait close together. A large blue sign reads NATARAJA STORE with Tamil script and the line AMMAN SANNATHI, MADURAI. Other shop signs, shoes and clothing displays line the street.