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A night procession moves across an open ground toward a row of decorated ceremonial umbrellas and palanquin-like canopies with colourful fringed tops. Many devotees in white dhotis and white kurtas walk in two lines, several wearing orange or saffron shawls and sashes. Women in saris, one in a grey sari and another in a deep red-gold sari, stand among them, and a woman in a pale sari carries a young child. Men play drums and a long horn-like instrument, and a bright floodlight glows near the right side. Tall poles with ornamental tops are visible among the umbrellas under a dark sky.

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