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Outdoor ritual procession between orange shipping-container structures under a multicoloured fringed canopy held aloft by a bare-chested young man with rudraksha beads. A figure with long dark dreadlocks, a white headband, and a red zip jacket bends forward to handle a white cloth bundle, with shaved-headed attendants nearby. Behind them, a line of saffron-clad devotees and drummers with drums follows in a narrow dirt lane. a person: the long dreadlocked figure in the red jacket and white headband is a candidate for the a person, shown in the act of offering or handling the bundle.

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