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Night procession on a paved path lit by warm lights. At centre, a brightly illuminated Ganesha deity murti with a large trunk and red-tipped ears sits on a flower-decorated float pulled by a red and silver tractor, with a driver at the wheel. On the right, a man in white dhoti and white shirt holds a long flaming torch, and a man beside him carries a brass vessel. Several people in white and orange clothes walk along the left and right sides, and red, orange and gold umbrellas and a large yellow fan-shaped ceremonial fixture frame the scene. Nearby trees hang with decorative tassels.

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