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A dusty dirt road during a festival procession in warm morning light. In the foreground, drummers in mustard-yellow tunics and dark trousers with yellow headbands play a large drum, and a bare-chested man in white dhoti walks nearby. Two oversized papier-mache giant figures with exaggerated painted faces, one in a green patterned costume and one in a blue-green outfit, are carried through the crowd. Further right, another giant figure in pink and a striped turban stands beside a figure in a green and orange outfit. Banana plants line the route, with red-and-white bunting on a fence and red flags behind. Several people in white ritual clothes walk along the road in the background.

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