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Outdoors on a busy street, two clay pots sit on a wood fire for Pongal cooking, one painted with red, green and blue diamond patterns and both wrapped in banana leaves with turmeric and red kumkum marks. Dry sugarcane stalks and firewood surround the fire. Behind them, passing motorbikes, a man in a lungi, a woman in a teal sari riding pillion, and a few pedestrians stand along a road lined with shops and a temple gopuram. No a person candidate is visible.

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