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A night procession walks along a striped cloth runner on a paved courtyard under strings of coloured lights. At centre, a man in an orange-brown garment with a red and gold turban and a long garland of flowers walks forward with his palms together. Behind him, women in orange and maroon saris and dark shawls walk in a line, and to the left a bare-chested drummer in a purple dhoti plays a drum. Two decorated parasols with striped canopies are held above the procession, and a cameraman in white stands among the attendants in white dhotis. A banner with a lotus-like emblem hangs from a pole at the top right. The scene reads as a ritual procession under night lights.

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