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Night photograph taken from a low angle of a rooftop or raised platform beside a white wall. In the foreground, two shaved-headed men in saffron-orange dhotis with gold-bordered shawls and orange beaded necklaces stand with their backs to the camera; one raises his arm toward the crowd. Ahead, a man in the centre wears a white and red garland and reddish-orange clothing, with another person beside him, while several people in white and red clothes stand on a balcony behind a corrugated roof. A sign in Tamil script reads 'தியானபீட கோயில்' (Dhyanapeeta Temple) with timings, and a small red-and-orange flag flies from a pole at left. Strings of lights and a colourful cloth canopy appear at the top edge.

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