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Night photograph of a street crowd in Thiruvannamalai near a blue-and-white canopy labelled Thiruvannamalai Traffic Police. At centre, a man with a shaved head, forehead markings and a rust-brown shawl is garlanded with a long flower garland of yellow, orange, pink and green blooms. A man beside him in white dhoti with a gold-coloured border and gold necklace stands close, and a woman in a dark outfit is in the lower left foreground. Many men press around them, some in shirts and one holding a mobile phone, while a man in the background holds a camera. Buses and shop fronts are visible behind the crowd.

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