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Night procession inside a large white and red tent during the Kumbh Mela, with many people in saffron and orange robes. In the centre, a woman in a red sari and red turban wears heavy gold necklaces and bangles, and gestures with her hand as she walks. Beside her, a young man in orange wears a rudraksha mala, and a man in white holds a long ceremonial staff. A bearded man in orange in the lower right wears beads. Bare light bulbs, strings of lights, and red fabric overhead light the scene. No candidate for a person is visibly identifiable from appearance.

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