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A night procession in a paved courtyard with string lights on a building wall. Two large costumed figures on stilts dominate the centre: the left one wears a magenta and orange skirt with a red and gold net veil, the right one a blue and orange skirt, a feathered headdress and a painted face. Behind them, men in white dhotis and women in saris carry umbrellas in blue, red and teal, and drummers in purple dhotis play drums. Figures in the left foreground include a bare-chested man in an orange-brown dhoti and a man in a white kurta with a gold-bordered waist cloth. Decorated poles and flags in red and orange appear at the right edge.

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