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Night photograph of a dense crowd outside a temple-side courtyard. At centre, a bearded man with long dark hair and a white tilak on his forehead wears a red-brown cloth draped over his shoulders and a thick green garland, with a rudraksha-style bead necklace; he is smiling and surrounded by devotees. Around him, young men and women in saffron-orange dhotis and garlands and some with white forehead markings press close, while a man in a pink shirt and bystanders raise a mobile phone to photograph him. A small shrine with a kalasha-like structure stands behind, and a yellow Tamil signboard hangs on a white wall. Roughly 40 people are visible.