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A street procession in Madurai, a photograph of wooden palanquin-style carts with carved wooden canopies draped in red cloth panels showing a painted black elephant and a blue peacock with yellow scrollwork. In the foreground, a shirtless man in a white dhoti with an orange-striped border holds the cart's rope, a garland of white and yellow flowers hanging from his hand. Behind him, a man in an orange dhoti and another in white and green stand on the street, and on a balcony above, several men in white and orange watch and clap. Shop signs include Sanjika Agency, Win Tex Tailors and Cambridge, and a basket of flowers and folded cloth lies in the lower foreground. A timestamp reads 06/06/2025 18:21.

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