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Night procession at an outdoor ground lit by bright floodlights and string lights. Centre foreground, a performer wears a large white papier-mache bull mask with black horns, gold collar and pink-red trim, over a white body costume with red and gold ruffled skirt and purple hem, holding a small red flag. Around them, women in saris walk in the procession: one in a red sari with a dark beaded mala, another in orange-red with gold jewellery and a red bindi, others in pink and white. Men in white dhoti and shirts stand behind, and a few people watch from the edges. Strings of blue and green lights hang on a fence.

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