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A photograph taken on a city street at dusk beside closed shutter storefronts, one reading S.T.D./I.S.D./FAX and another with South Indian tiffin hours. A barefoot man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange saffron wrap and a white tilak on the forehead, stands in the middle of the road. Before him on the asphalt lie two broken coconut halves and small flickering oil lamps, part of a ritual breaking of coconut. Three men in white stand at the side watching: one in a white shirt and grey trousers with a rudraksha-style mala, one in white dhoti and shirt with hands together, and one in white shirt and trousers. Pieces of trash lie on the road.

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