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Night street scene in a South Indian town. A large orange and yellow banner along the right side shows a central deity figure with a rows of portrait photos of men above and below, with Tamil text announcing a kodai vizha festival. A long line of women and girls in saris and salwar kameez, several holding small items, stands along the roadside beneath the banner. A bus with its headlights on passes on the left, a blurred man in a blue shirt walks in the foreground, and a street lamp and string lights glow overhead.

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