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A night procession moves along a red-walled road lit by a bright floodlight. At the centre rises a large clay Ganesha murti with a gold crown and trunk raised in blessing, carried on a decorated float with red and blue canopies. Many devotees surround it: men with bare chests and white dhotis, women in white saris with rudraksha malas, and drummers and musicians in saffron-red cloth and orange headwear. Some men hold long brass horns and drums. A white-clad figure in the lower foreground has a pale tilaka. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.

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