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A white car is stopped on a busy street in Varanasi, with shuttered shops, a tangle of overhead wires and a green sign reading 24 Hrs behind it. A woman seated in the front passenger seat wears a maroon garment with a cream-and-orange bordered sari, orange and white flower garlands, and gold bangles on her arm, and she has orange tilak on her forehead. Her face is partly shaded by the open car door. Another person in white stands at the driver's side and a shaved-headed man with orange tilak stands behind the car.