A thatched-roof open-sided hut with red painted pillars and a woven palm-leaf gable stands on a cement platform over reddish dirt ground. Plastic chairs sit inside beneath the eave, and a blue sign reading LAUGHING TEMPLE points toward a dark statue at right. Tall trees and flowering shrubs surround the structure under a cloudy sky. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A thatched-roof open-sided hut with red painted pillars and a woven palm-leaf gable stands on a cement platform over reddish dirt ground. Plastic chairs sit inside beneath the eave, and a blue sign reading LAUGHING TEMPLE points toward a dark statue at right. Tall trees and flowering shrubs surround the structure under a cloudy sky. No people are visible.

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