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A street procession in a narrow residential lane in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In the centre, a young man in white dhoti and an orange shawl, with white vibhuti marks on his forehead, carries a brass tray of bananas and fruit toward the camera. Behind him a woman in a blue sari with gold jewellery holds her hands together in greeting, and a grey-haired older woman in a yellow sari stands in the foreground. Other men in white shirts and dhotis stand along the roadside, a small girl in green is at the left edge, and a woman in a purple sari watches from a doorway. Shuttered shops, parked scooters and a motorbike line the street.

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