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A street procession moves past a whitewashed wall and a yellow auto-rickshaw. A multicoloured parasol with a blue, yellow and green panel and a white dove motif is raised above the crowd. Several men and women in saffron and orange robes walk with hands joined in namaste; the central saffron-robed figure, with a shaved head and red tilak, is walking forward. A bearded man in orange robes walks beside them. Many devotees in white dhotis and white kurtas follow, some women in white sarees with dark shawls. On the right, a musician in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a long wind instrument, and a child is held on a man's shoulder in the background. The atmosphere is a festival procession, though no particular deity or chariot is clearly visible.

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