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A photograph at a festival procession area beneath white and orange draped canopy poles hung with marigold garlands. A bearded man in a red cap and bare chest, wearing a pink-orange dhoti-style wrap and a rudraksha mala with a saffron shawl, stands centre facing away from a man in a pink shirt at lower right. Around him, cameramen with video cameras and still cameras film from the front, and several saffron-robed men and crowds of onlookers stand behind orange railings. A woman in orange kneels at lower left with hands pressed together. A bearded man in a saffron-orange turban and robes stands at upper left. Marigold garlands line the poles and a brass vessel is held near the centre.

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