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Outdoor photo on a sunlit village street in Tamil Nadu, with a tiled-roof house and barred windows behind. A man in a white shirt and garland of white flowers holds a printed certificate-style sheet while speaking with a young man in white dhoti and orange shawl who presses his palms together in greeting. Around them stand a crowd of onlookers: boys in striped and plain shirts, men in white shirts and dhotis, and a woman in an orange-and-yellow sari with glasses. A bare-chested man in white dhoti stands at the left edge. Timestamp 15.10.2006 appears in the lower right corner.

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