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A dim, crowded night scene inside a temple hall decorated with white and yellow marigold garlands and hanging red lights. In the foreground a cameraman in a light shirt films with a handheld camera, and a bright open flame. Many devotees sit or stand closely together, wearing yellow, striped and white clothes. Several people in the crowd wear blue caps, and a figure in the right foreground wears an orange-red turban with a white ritual shirt. The turban wearer's appearance is not clearly distinctive enough to confirm an identity, so he is described only by role.

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December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04A dim, smoky hall crowded with devotees, many with raised hands in namaskar and arms lifted toward a bright open flame in the centre. Overhead hang strings of yellow and red flower garlands. Men in shirts and cloth caps and a person wearing a beaded necklace stand close together, some holding up mobile phones. No individual can be clearly picked out as a person from this distance, and the scene is dominated by the flame and the crowd's gesture of devotion, consistent with a karthikai deepam lamp lighting.2006-12-04A dense, hazy crowd fills a hall hung with garlands of marigold and red flowers. Many hands are raised in the air, some holding mobile phones, and a bright open flame glows in the centre background. In the foreground, several men wear pale green or yellow peaked caps and khaki uniforms. Smoke and warm light blur the scene, and no individual is clearly identifiable as a known figure from appearance alone.2006-12-04Dense crowd photographed at night beside an open flame at left. Several uniformed police officers in dark blue caps stand in a line, with their backs and profiles toward the camera. A man in an orange turban and an older man with a bald head stand among the press of devotees and onlookers. Many people hold up phones or cameras. Foreground heads and white dhoti-style clothing fill the frame, and the image is blurred from movement.2006-12-04A dim, smoky hall hung with strings of marigold and multicoloured flower garlands across the ceiling. A bright flame burns in the background at the far end of the room, surrounded by a dense crowd of devotees seen from behind, many raising their arms and hands upward. Several men in front wear light caps and shirts, and some hold up phones or cameras. The crowd fills the foreground.2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04December 04 2006 - Karthikai Deepam, Tiruvannamalai2006-12-04