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A street photograph of a roadside in a small Tamil Nadu town. A large red and orange banner on a building shows a smiling bearded man with a white turban and a Tamil headline reading "கதவைத் திற... காற்று வரட்டும்" (Open the door, let the air come), with the text "திவ்யா சத்சங்கம்" (Divya Satsangam) below. The banner is printed, so the depicted man is a depiction; no appearance-based identification is made. A man in a grey shirt and dark trousers walks on the road in the foreground. Nearby are a "SACRED HEART" sign, a pink poster on a balcony, and purple and white poles decorated with bunting and banana plant trunks.

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