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Outdoor photograph of a crowd in a procession under a clear blue sky. Several men in orange and saffron clothing hold up gold-coloured ceremonial objects and palanquin-like poles decorated with white jasmine and orange-yellow marigold garlands. Two orange-and-red parasols with colourful fringes stand at the left edge. Bystanders in white shirts and caps watch from the sides, and a bare-chested man is partly visible at the right edge. The scene suggests a ratha or palanquin procession, with devotees carrying the decorated load on their shoulders.

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