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Photo taken through a dusty windscreen of a street in Tiruvannamalai. A silver Ford SUV with a spare tyre cover on its rear door drives ahead, with its Karnataka number plate KA04MN 4444 visible. Ahead on the right stands a tall temple gopuram under scaffolding, painted in red, yellow and blue bands. Motorcyclists and pedestrians crowd the road, including a shirtless man in a dhoti walking on the left. Roadside fruit stalls with yellow and orange produce line the right side, and hanging signboards and shopfronts fill the background under a hazy sky.

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November 10 20112011-11-10August 11 20092009-08-11Street scene in a Tamil Nadu town looking toward a tall, ornately tiered gopuram temple tower painted in pale blue and teal with sculpted figures. A grey SUV with a spare tyre on its rear door drives down the road, its number plate reading KA 04 MN 4444. On the left, a woman in a yellow sari walks with a companion past shops, and a man in white dhoti walks along the sidewalk. On the right, a man in a checked shirt rides a motorcycle, and a green-painted building stands beside a signboard with Tamil lettering. Overhead cables and a telecom tower frame the view.2009-08-11A street view in a Tamil Nadu town shows a tall, richly sculpted South Indian temple gopuram covered in painted deity figures and carvings, rising above low shops and buildings. In the foreground, a silver Ford SUV with Karnataka registration KA 04 MN 4444 is stopped in traffic. Several men in white shirts and dhotis walk along the roadside past a hotel sign reading Hotel Sabanayagam, with colourful cloth hanging from a stall at left. No one is clearly identifiable as a person.2009-08-11A street in a South Indian town with a tall gopuram temple tower rising in the background. Strings of triangular pennant flags in red, orange, yellow and white stretch across the street. A silver Ford SUV with a spare tyre mounted on its rear drives toward the camera, a motorcyclist in a white shirt and red scarf rides at left, and pedestrians including a woman in a pink sari walk along the roadside. Shops, signboards and a red flag line the street, and fresh marigold and yellow garlands hang in the foreground.2006-09-23September 23 20062006-09-23September 23 20062006-09-23December 29 20102010-12-29A photograph taken through a car windshield on a dusty roadside in a South Indian town at hazy early morning or late afternoon light. In the foreground a silver SUV with a spare tyre mounted on its rear door drives down the road, its number plate reading KA 04 MN 4444. Beside the road pedestrians walk past shuttered shops and low concrete buildings. A tall gopuram temple tower with carved tiers rises in the background among palm trees, and a man in a white shirt stands at the right edge beside another vehicle.2009-11-25A silver Ford SUV with a spare tyre mounted on its rear door, plate KA 04 MN 4444, drives along a busy street in front of the camera. Behind it, a white gopuram tower of a Hindu temple rises above yellow and cream buildings, overhead power lines criss-cross the sky. Pedestrians and motorcyclists, including a man in a white shirt and a person in orange, move along the roadside, and a tipper truck stands to the right. The scene is a street approach to a South Indian temple town.2009-08-06A street view through a car windscreen shows a busy road lined with trees, with a silver SUV in the foreground and a line of traffic ahead. Two men walk along the left sidewalk, one in a blue shirt and one in a white dhoti and shirt. Ahead stands a temple gopuram with tiers of sculpted figures and a golden kalasha, above a pillared gateway with a red-roofed entrance. Auto-rickshaws are parked along the right side near a yellow barrier. On the right, a large red billboard shows several figures in white and saffron-coloured robes, with a grey streetlight pole beside it.2010-01-13September 23 20062006-09-23