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Night procession in a festival lane lit by strings of small bulbs and tube lights, with smoke hanging in the air. Along the left, a row of men and women in saffron and orange cloths and white dhotis walk past rows of red-lidded tin trays with offerings, plates and small oil lamps set on a raised stone pavement. In the foreground a man in a green shirt and white dhoti plays a drum, and a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a long wind instrument. Behind them women in sarees watch, and a man in an orange shirt stands at right beside a small orange flag on a pole. White boards with printed text line the wall behind the crowd.

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