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Night procession on a stone-paved path lined with strings of coloured fairy lights in trees. Men in white dhotis with gold borders and bare upper bodies hold large umbrellas in yellow, orange, red and pink with silver tassels. Women in colourful saris, including orange, teal and yellow, walk alongside holding umbrellas. A central figure in a maroon robe and a man in white walk toward the camera carrying a lamp. Several more people in white and maroon follow along the path.

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