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Night procession on a road lit by bright spotlights and strings of fairy lights along a fence. Several performers carry tall decorated headpieces with pink, red and gold ornaments and white feathered plumes, while people in saffron and orange shawls and colourful saris walk among them. A woman in a green and gold sari stands centre, and a pink and a blue umbrella are raised above the group. In the right foreground, two men with their backs to the camera wear striped and checked shirts, one with a yellow cloth over his shoulder. The crowd is dense with the foreground figures clearly visible.

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