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Street procession at dusk in a busy Indian market lane. A deity murti sits on a gold-framed palanquin decorated with white jasmine garlands, red flowers and a red and green canopy, draped in orange and pink cloth. A bare-chested man with a sandalwood forehead mark and a black rudraksha mala holds a green and gold silk cloth over the palanquin pole, while a shirtless man in the foreground, with a gold chain, helps. A man in a red shirt stands on the palanquin at right. Shop signs, a shop selling Maragatha jewellery, and a balcony with onlookers line the street. Timestamp 01/06/2025 18:28 appears at lower right.

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