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Outdoor street procession in a crowded Indian town with ornate pink-and-red temple buildings behind. Centre, a man in a rust-orange robe with an orange turban and a gold-beaded necklace raises one hand in greeting while people press around him. Beside him stands a man in a bright yellow kurta, and at right a man in a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala and gold beads looks toward the camera. Behind them an ornate yellow canopy with crystal fringe is held over the procession. Uniformed police officers and onlookers in caps and shirts line the crowd, and orange flags and saffron banners decorate the street.

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