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Night procession outdoors on a pale sandy ground. A man in a red top and white dhoti performs a headstand on the ground, legs raised, while a decorated wooden palanquin with a yellow and pink canopy and feathered sides is held up beside him. Around them, men in white dhotis and bare-chested devotees with sacred ash markings and beaded malas play drums and a long horn-like wind instrument. A man in a white shirt with an ID badge watches. Red and orange flags and a pink umbrella with a printed portrait stand in the background. Bystanders wear casual clothes and orange lungis.

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