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A photo of a busy street procession in a small Tamil Nadu town. In the foreground a young man in a blue shirt holds a metal tray of coconuts and offerings, and a bearded man in white stands nearby. A white van with a garland of flowers across its bumper, and a framed portrait taped to its windscreen, moves slowly down the road followed by a line of vehicles. Men in white dhotis and shirts, and women in saris, line the roadside. Shops with signs in Tamil stand behind, including Modern Furniture and a herbal beauty parlour, along with a yellow auto-rickshaw and bicycles. Several men wear tilak marks on their foreheads.

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