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Outdoor festival procession at a dusty open site under a clear blue sky, with low apartment buildings behind. A large cluster of multicoloured balloons in red, yellow, blue, white and green rises above the crowd. Beneath colourful ornate parasols with red, green and gold panels, a man in orange saffron robes and a white shirt walks in the centre, while a figure in saffron-orange cloth stands nearby. Several boys and men in white dhotis and kurtas, some in orange shawls, line the procession, and a young boy stands with palms joined in namaskar. Spectators in the foreground watch closely. A blue truck and a pink tent appear in the background. Attended by a crowd of roughly 50 visible people.

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