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A photograph of a construction site on red-brown earth at Arunachala Sarvajnapeetam in Tiruvannamalai. A trench is cut into the ground, lined with rubble stones and a string guideline staked along its edge. Concrete blocks are stacked near a thatched shelter, and several women in colourful saris, one in a pale headscarf, carry pots and work around the blocks. Trees and palm fronds frame the open sky, and a stick marks one boundary. No one is identifiable as a person in this scene.