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A dense outdoor crowd at a temple street procession in Tiruvannamalai. In the foreground centre, a young man with long dreadlocked hair, a white vertical tilak with a red dot, and a rust-coloured beaded mala stands beside a flower garland of white and yellow blossoms with red accents, which an arm reaches up to offer. Another young man with curly hair and white forehead markings stands to the left, and an older man with white hair is at the far left edge. Many other people in red and grey clothing press around them, with a stone temple wall and dark doorway behind.

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A kneeling boy in a white kurta with hands folded in namaste receives a blessing as a man with long dreadlocked hair and a beard places his hand on the boy's forehead. The blessing man wears a garland of pink and white flowers over a bare upper body with a red thread on his wrist. Behind them, a man with a white tilak and other devotees in white garments stand near a wooden structure.2017-05-04January 16 20182018-01-16January 16 20182018-01-16January 16 20182018-01-16Crowd photograph at an outdoor temple-street event. The central man has short dark hair, a trimmed beard, a broad smile and a white and red tilak on his forehead, and wears a garland of white, yellow and red-pink flowers over reddish clothing. Around him, devotees stand close together, including a man with a white forehead marking and red bindi on the left, an older man with glasses, a woman with a grey bun, and a child at upper right. A camera lens is visible at the right edge.2018-01-16January 16 20182018-01-16May 04 20172017-05-04A young man with shoulder-length dark curly hair, eyes closed, stands with a hand pressed to his forehead by a person in the foreground whose braided hair and pink-and-white flower garland are visible. He wears an orange draped cloth over bare shoulders, a long necklace of dark rudraksha beads interspersed with gold beads, a small pendant with a framed picture, and a white horizontal line of paste across his brow with a red mark at the centre. Behind him are other people in orange and white clothing with similar white forehead markings. The foreground figure's hand presses the forehead in a blessing gesture.2017-02-27January 16 20182018-01-16January 16 20182018-01-16February 18 20172017-02-18January 16 20182018-01-16