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Night photo of a crowd at a temple procession in Tiruvannamalai. At centre a bearded man with long dark hair wears a green leaf garland, an orange-red cloth and a rudraksha mala, with white tripundra marks on his forehead, and he smiles while touching a bald child's head. Around him saffron-clad disciples in orange cloths and rudraksha malas stand close. A woman in a red-brown sari with a red bindi holds a small girl in a pink dress. Other devotees, a bald man in a pink-and-white sari and a man in a white shirt holding a toddler crowd in. A decorated shrine canopy and a flowered banner stand behind them.