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Street photograph in Tiruvannamalai showing a colourfully painted small roadside temple shrine with sculpted deities and a tall stepped gopuram-style spire, set beside a large yellow signboard for VDSR Steels. A grey-haired man in a pale blue shirt and white dhoti stands near the shrine entrance, and a few women in saris and devotees gather at the doorway. In the foreground, a seller in a white shirt sits behind a green-covered cart piled with pink flowers and white jasmine garlands. Multi-storey concrete buildings and a yellow metal barrier line the road.

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