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A festival procession on a dirt road with two dancers in red and green costumes with white plumed headdresses and yellow-garlanded arms, performing energetic steps. Behind them drummers in yellow and blue kurta-style clothes play large frame drums, while white-clad devotees in white dhotis and kurtas walk in the crowd. Orange and red flags line the route, and a decorated gateway stands in the background.

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