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Aerial view of a long procession of devotees on a wide multi-lane road during a padayatra. Many walkers wear white clothes and carry saffron-orange flags, and several hold framed portraits and placards. A red banner is held up in the middle of the column. On the left, a uniformed police officer walks along the roadside beside traffic of cars, vans, buses and auto-rickshaws. Onlookers crowd a pedestrian footbridge on the right, some photographing the march. The walkers are too numerous to count individually and the crowd is dense.

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Aerial view of a long procession of people in white clothes walking down a wide road, many carrying red-orange flags on poles and some holding placards. A red banner is carried near the middle of the line. Spectators stand on a pedestrian overpass and along the roadside railing at right, while traffic including cars, autorickshaws, buses and motorbikes moves on the left. Shops, a pink building and trees line the road. Many people are visible, numbering well over twenty.2010-07-24Elevated view of a large street procession on a multi-lane road, with hundreds of participants in white clothes waving orange-red flags and carrying red and white placards. Several people in front carry or walk beside oversized papier-mache style figures with painted faces, pink and yellow costumes, and a drum-playing group in colourful traditional dress. Uniformed police officers walk along the left edge of the road. 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