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Photograph taken from an upper-floor window looking down onto a street lined with a two-storey commercial building with blue-green painted facade, shutters and signboards. Below, motorcycles and scooters are parked along the road, a green auto-rickshaw is at lower left, and a few people stand near the shopfronts. A rocky hill rises behind the buildings under a pale sky. Shop signs read Shiva Tiffin-like Tamil signage, a Siva banner, and a sports wear shop sign. No identifiable a person is visible in the scene.

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A photograph of a dusty street in Tiruvannamalai taken from an upper-floor window. Multi-storey concrete buildings with shop fronts line both sides, with shop signs and hanging wires overhead. A rocky hill rises in the background. Two or three small figures walk on the road and a few parked bicycles and a motorbike stand along the kerb. The street is quiet with no visible procession or ritual activity.Photograph of a busy street in Tiruvannamalai taken from an elevated vantage point, showing a row of multi-storey concrete buildings with shopfronts at street level and balconies above. A green-and-white shop sign reads TVLS Sarvani? and a blue sign on the right is visible. A few pedestrians walk along the road, and a yellow auto-rickshaw and motorcycles are parked or moving at the left edge. A rocky hill rises behind the buildings under a cloudy sky.1988 - The SPH's premonastic home and street in TiruvannamalaiA street scene in a town with a hillside behind low buildings. On the left a yellow auto-rickshaw and several motorcyclists ride along the road, and a few pedestrians walk on the pavement. Shuttered shop fronts line the street, including a yellow-fronted mobile phone shop with a blue sign, and a shop with a sign reading H.R. Electrical Store. A tall gopuram temple tower rises behind the buildings near the centre. Overhead electric wires cross the scene. A man in white clothing rides a bicycle at the lower right, and a few people stand at the right edge.2012-07-08A busy street in a town at the foot of a rocky hill. Yellow auto-rickshaws and motorcycles travel along the road, and a man on a bicycle rides past a parked white car. A woman in white clothing walks on the pavement beside shops and multi-storey buildings with balconies. Signs for ICICI Bank, Reliance and a KOS lodge line the street, and a yellow truck is parked at the right edge beside a shop with a pink facade. Overhead power lines cross the scene under an overcast sky.2012-07-08A photograph of a quiet street in a small town at the foot of a rocky hill. Shopfronts line the road, including a shop sign reading T.S.M. Mobiles and another signboard in Tamil script on a building with a blue-green awning. A bicycle rider in a white shirt rides on the road, a man in dark clothes walks along the pavement, and a cyclist with a handcart passes below. Overhead utility wires cross the street, and a gopuram-like temple tower rises behind the buildings at right.2012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08July 08 20122012-07-08A street scene in a hilly Tamil town with a paved road running diagonally toward a forested mountain in the background. A man in a light shirt rides a blue motorcycle with a passenger on the left, while a woman in a pink and yellow sari walks past the closed blue shuttered shops on the right. Several pedestrians walk along the road, including a figure in white on the far left. Shops have teal and cream facades, a sign reading 'Sri Lakshmi' and Tamil signage, and utility poles and wires overhead.2012-07-081988 - The SPH's premonastic home and street in Tiruvannamalai +1 copiesA photograph of a busy town street in Tiruvannamalai with a low, rocky hill rising behind rooftops and shopfronts. On the right, a blue-and-teal shopfront carries a large Tamil-script signboard, with an iron shutter and a blue rolling shutter beyond. A woman in a pink sari and a woman in a green sari with a small child walk along the pavement, carrying a blue bag. On the left, a man in a white shirt and a porter with a large sack on his head walk past a motorcycle and bicycles, and posters are pasted on the walls. The scene is an ordinary street life view with no a person or ritual activity visible.2012-07-08