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Outdoor photograph at a Pongal festival setting in Tiruvannamalai, with rows of black stone Shiva lingams on a flat ground under a clear blue sky and trees behind. A seated man with short dark hair, a red tilak on his forehead, a green leafy garland and a rudraksha mala wears a saffron-orange robe and holds a small printed booklet with a woman in an orange top, her long hair pulled back and a red bindi, who looks down at it. A third person in white, wearing glasses and a red tilak, stands at the upper left. a person is seated on the right, identified by his saffron robe, rudraksha mala and garland, with a sense of a devotee-guided ritual exchange.

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