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Night photograph of a procession float decorated with marigold garlands, strings of hanging golden bells and a blue and magenta fringed canopy. A woman in an orange sari sits on the float, raising one hand. In the foreground a man in a white dhoti with a bare upper body and an orange cloth holds a camera on a boom. Men in orange and reddish-brown dhotis hold tall silver ceremonial staffs with bells and finials at the left, and a crowd is visible at the bottom edge. The scene is lit by night lights and street lamps.

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