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Outdoor procession on a dirt road at a festival, with banana plants and orange-and-red flags with a blue emblem behind the crowd. In the foreground, a man in a blue top and white dhoti plays a hand drum, while a man in yellow clothing and a white cloth over the shoulder walks beside a tall ratha or palanquin draped in yellow and orange cloth with brass finials on the right. Several men in white kurtas and white dhotis, plus a woman in a maroon sari, stand in the crowd, some clapping. Visible people number roughly twenty, most in white or yellow clothing.

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