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A crowd of devotees stands along a concrete bridge parapet during a procession, many in white clothes, some waving white flags with a blue emblem and orange flags. Two ornate umbrellas with fringed purple and red canopies, and a decorated banner on a pole, are raised above the group. Rusted rebar stubs stick up from an unfinished concrete edge in the foreground, with dry grass and bushes below the bridge. The procession is part of the Brahmotsavam festival.

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