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A street procession in a crowded Indian town market, photographed from a raised vantage point. In the foreground, a large golden-bronze pair of feet, a deity's padukas or feet image, is draped with a white jasmine garland and rests on a raised platform. Behind it, many men, women and children in ordinary cotton clothes, including saris in pink, orange and red, stand and walk along the street. Shops, signboards, a yellow Tamil-language sign, orange and white flags, and parked auto-rickshaws line the road. Gold-painted pillars frame the platform, and a black speaker sits beside it. The scene suggests a festival procession, with a crowd gathered along the route.

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Photograph of a street scene in a busy Indian town during a daytime procession. In the foreground, a large bronze or gold-toned deity murti's hands are draped with a garland of white jasmine-like flowers. Behind it, an orange flag hangs on a pole, and a wooden cart or ratha-like structure stands at the left. The street is crowded with two-wheelers, auto-rickshaws, a red van, and many people in white dhotis and shirts, plus women in saris, some standing and watching. Tall trees and multi-storey shop buildings with signboards line the road.2006-10-20October 22 20062006-10-22Street procession scene on a wooden ratha with a large gilded hand of a deity murti decorated with white flower garlands in the left foreground. An orange saffron flag on a pole stands on the cart. Several men in white dhotis and shirts and a man in a grey shirt stand on the cart and crowd the street, with motorcycles, auto-rickshaws and a white car visible. A black speaker is mounted on the cart and tall bamboo poles lie along its edge. Shop signs and billboards line the street behind the crowd.2006-10-20October 20 20062006-10-20October 20 20062006-10-20A street procession in a Tamil Nadu town on an evening in October 2006. In the foreground, a large gilded deity figure with pillars and a red flag stands on a raised decorated platform, with gold finger-like forms visible at the bottom edge. A crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts, some in lighter clothes, presses toward the platform, with a bald man in white and a man in a dark shirt reaching forward. A child in a striped shirt stands near the front. Parked cars, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles and shops line the road, and trees and hills appear in the background. A dense group of several dozen people is visible.2006-10-24Photograph taken from a procession vehicle during a street procession in an Indian town. In the foreground, large gilded hands with raised fingers. Beyond them, an old cream-and-red public bus has passengers leaning from its windows. Orange saffron flags flutter at the left and right edges. A man in a white shirt rides a red motorcycle in the street, and autorickshaws and other traffic crowd the roadway under a hazy sky. A partially visible person in an orange cloth sits at the lower right near a metal drum.2006-10-23October 20 20062006-10-20October 09 20062006-10-09October 23 20062006-10-23October 09 20062006-10-09October 23 20062006-10-23