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| nagaswaram player |
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| Meenakshi Temple |
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| Meenaksi Temple - detail |
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| Meenaksi - the view from below |
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| a boy and his limes |
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| a cycle rickshaw with sugar cane antennae |
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| bananas, but bananas like you've never seen them before |
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| bangles - Madurai |
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| carrying the Pongal pot |
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| egret takes flight in the backwaters |
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| enjoying Pongal's sweet treat in the raw |
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| family of five on a motorcycle |
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| herding ducks |
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| how silk strands become a 6m-long sari |
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| prayers as the Pongal pot boils over |
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| prayers in Meenakshi |
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| railway coolies |
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| reciting mythology at Meenakshi |
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| dozens of varieties of rice for sale |
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| selling fish at sunset on the middle cliff in Varkala |
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| sugar cane for sale on the street corners of Madurai for Pongal |
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| sunrise on Lake Venbanad |
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| water flower bouquet in Kumarakum |
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| bracing for the charge at jallikattu |
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| bull grappling at jallikattu |
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| hanging on to a purple bull |
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| jallikattu pen from above |
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| lee and the bull 'Ramu' |
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| prepping a bull with paint for its coming out |
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| run over at jalliakttu practice |
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| the spoils to the winner - receiving a prize at jallikattu |
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| this guy is about to win a pot at jallikattu |
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| would you jump in front of this |
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