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A dense outdoor crowd gathers under a thatched palm-leaf canopy at the Pattanam KAILASA inauguration in Tamil Nadu. Men in white shirts and dhotis, women in saris and salwar suits in red, blue, orange and green, and children fill the space. Tall cloth-wrapped poles with floral and geometric painted designs in red, blue, yellow and orange stand among the people, and two speaker boxes sit at the back beside banana plants. Many people press forward, some with hands folded, and a uniformed police officer is visible at the lower left. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person in this frame.

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