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A dense outdoor street procession moves through a crowd under bright daylight. Many colourful decorated umbrellas (red, pink, green, maroon and gold-fringed) are carried above the crowd. Men in white dhotis and bare-chested devotees walk in the lead, while women in orange and red saris and some in white stand among the crowd. Red and orange flags wave on poles, and a large printed banner on the left shows a bearded older man in saffron with a Hindi/Devanagari caption. Tall trees and roadside stalls line the background.

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