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Night street procession with drummers and dancers in a crowded road lined with spectators. Foreground: a drummer in white dhoti and shirt with a saffron-orange shawl beats a large drum. Dancers wear green and gold, red and gold, and magenta costumes, several balancing tall pink and white decorated headdresses or kalasha-style pots with feathered plumes. Men in white dhotis and yellow headwear walk among them. Behind, a multi-storey building is wrapped in colourful string lights, and a ratha or ceremonial structure sits at centre. Bright floodlights illuminate the scene.

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December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23A night street procession at a festival, with many performers in motion. In the foreground, a woman in a green and gold sari balances a large ornate pink-and-gold headpiece topped with a small figure. Behind her, a woman in a bright purple sari with a red and gold border dances with raised hands, wearing a beaded necklace and ankle bells. Other performers in colourful costumes, feathered headdresses and tall decorated pots on their heads walk alongside drummers. Strings of blue and white lights and illuminated letters decorate a multi-storey building behind the crowd.2016-12-23A night procession at an illuminated campus building. Women in colourful saris, including green, magenta and purple, walk in a line carrying tall decorated kalasha-style pots topped with ornate figures and feathered plumes on their heads. Behind them, drummers in yellow-trimmed headwear and men in white dhotis play large drums amid a crowd. The building is strung with multicoloured fairy lights. Festival drummers and kalasha-bearing women process at night in celebration.2016-12-23Night procession of women in colourful saris carrying ornate decorated pots on their heads, each topped with pink and silver embellished crowns and peacock-like figurines. Dancers in magenta, green, purple and gold saris walk along a street lit by strings of multicoloured fairy lights. Men in cream dhotis and a yellow shirt and others in white stand among the marchers, with fluffy white and orange decorative plumes behind. Festive celebratory street procession.2016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23Night procession at an event lit by strings of blue, pink and white fairy lights overhead. In the centre, a woman in a green silk saree with gold border and a white-tipped shawl carries a tall headdress with a pink sequined crown and white feather plumes, with orange flowers at her hair; she wears a visible ID badge on her blouse. Around her, carrying pink and multicoloured tall headdresses, several women in gold-bordered sarees walk in the procession. Behind them, men in white kurta and dhoti with yellow shawls walk among a crowd of onlookers. Some dancers in the foreground wear large pink and purple sequined headdresses with feather plumes and bird ornaments.2016-12-23Night procession with dense crowd moving through an open courtyard lit by string lights. A decorated palanquin-style float with an ornate arched canopy frames a seated figure, carried forward by performers. Foreground: women in purple and colourful saris balancing decorated brass pots with peacock-feather and pink ornaments on their heads, a man in white in front, and drummers beating a large drum. A man in a yellow costume dances near the front, and bare-chested men in orange-white dhotis walk in the middle. Peacock-feather fans, blue and red umbrellas, and a metal-framed building stand behind.2016-12-09December 23 20162016-12-23Night procession on a paved street lit by a bright white floodlight and strings of multicoloured lights on a building at right. Several dancers in saris of red, green, yellow and teal balance tall headdresses of white feather plumes, pink and multicoloured ornaments and floral garlands, moving among drummers and onlookers. A drummer at right wears a green top and white dhoti and carries a drum. Robed men in white and devotees stand behind the dancers, with a decorated red-and-yellow palanquin-like structure at the far left edge. No a person candidate is clearly visible.2016-12-23A nighttime street procession at an ashram-style courtyard lit with strings of coloured fairy lights. Several women dance in brightly coloured saris, carrying ornate decorated pots and headpieces topped with feathers, flowers and pink and silver decorations; some balance pots on their heads. A young woman in a white sari with a red border and a woman in a blue sari dance in the foreground, and a woman in a purple sari with gold border plays a drum at right. Behind them, men in white dhotis and white shirts play drums and a trumpet-like horn, with a crowd of onlookers and a tall lit tree and kalasha-style structure in the background. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2016-12-09