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A festive street procession moves past orange-painted buildings and a white ambulance. Devotees in white and orange saris and dhotis, many with faces and hair streaked in pink, green and blue powder, crowd the path. A man in the foreground holds up a red and gold kalasha-like vessel beneath a red and gold umbrella canopy. Bald saffron-robed monks walk through the crowd, one in orange and another in bright yellow. Several women wear rudraksha or beaded necklaces and white shawls. The scene reads as a colourful holi-style or Dasara procession in an ashram compound.

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