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Night procession photographed from an elevated angle at an outdoor festival site. A brightly lit, ornately decorated palanquin or ratha glows with orange-red and gold illumination, carrying a deity murti. Dense crowds of devotees in dark and light clothing stand around it, many with arms raised, and green LED rope lights line the ground in curving paths. Multicolour string lights and festoons hang across a building in the background. The scene is dark apart from the lit procession vehicle and lights.

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