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A street procession in a rural Tamil town, with a crowd of men and some women gathered near a thatched-roof shop and a blue signboard reading SRI KUMARAN TRANSPORT. Several men in white shirts and dhotis, and one in a light shirt, carry or hold pink and orange flower garlands. A man in the center holds a brass vessel with flowers and a small plant, and a bearded elderly man in white extends his hand toward the vessel. Men in brown and yellow shirts stand at the edges, one with a tilak-marked forehead. Trees and a red flag are visible overhead, and a red-and-white banner hangs on the left.

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