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Outdoor street scene at dusk beside a decorated float with a large framed banner. The banner shows a portrait of a smiling man with an orange-and-red turban, a green shawl and a mala, alongside a small inset photo and Tamil text. A crowd of devotees gathers under leafy trees, with palms and yellow hanging decorations overhead. Several women wear saris in green, yellow, blue and black, a man in white dhoti stands in the middle, and a girl in a green dress and a boy in yellow kurta are at right. A saffron-robed sannyasi stands at left near the float. Cables and string lights cross above the trees, and a carved ornament sits on the float's top left.

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