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A procession in a courtyard before a salmon-coloured multi-storey building with many split air conditioners. In the foreground a long-haired man with dreadlocks wears a red flower garland and holds a tall gold-painted pole with a fringed canopy, and a man with white markings on his arm stands beside a white car. Behind them a group of men in saffron-orange dhotis and shawls, some bare-chested with rudraksha, lift a decorated palanquin or deity murti heaped with red, orange and white garlands under a multicoloured canopy. A cameraman with a large video camera films the scene at right, and onlookers watch from the balcony.