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Night photograph of a festive street procession lit by strings of multicoloured fairy lights. At the centre, a man in a rust-red robe and matching red turban wears a long garland of white and red flowers and a brown rudraksha mala, smiling as he walks among a crowd. a person: the central figure's red turban, floral garland and rudraksha mala fit the page's identification, though his face is partly obscured and the cues are not conclusive. Around him, men in white shirts and dhotis, one with a drum, and a bare-chested man with sacred ash marks and a mala walk with the crowd. A large white drum with blue Kannada lettering is played by a young man in white. Nearby, a man in a black shirt holds up a mobile phone to film.