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A 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.

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