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Interior of a South Indian temple hall during an evening festival, with dense crowds of devotees seated on the floor in the foreground, many in white and pastel clothes, a woman in a grey sari standing at left and a uniformed police officer near the top left. Tall brass oil lamps stand in rows behind a metal railing, and garlands of yellow marigolds and red-and-white decorations hang from the carved stone pillars and ceiling. At right, a man in a pale pink shirt and cream dhoti leans on the railing, and another man in orange-brown dhoti stands beside a stone pillar. Carved stone columns frame the scene. Some visible people appear to be attendants or devotees; the photograph does not clearly show a distinct central figure identifiable as a person.

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