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A street procession in a South Indian town, with a crowd of men in white dhotis and orange shawls marching past shops and signboards. Drummers beat large drums and some players blow long brass horns. Carried above them are round multicoloured umbrellas with fringed edges and rectangular banners bearing a blue and white emblem. Orange flags on poles rise over the crowd, and at left a red and yellow cloth hangs from a stall. Onlookers stand along the roadside, including a woman in a red saree with a flower-decorated braid. No individual is identifiable as a person from appearance cues here.

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