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Outdoor procession at an open site beside a parked truck and a black speaker stack, with a white TAMILNADU-plated vehicle at left. A large framed portrait on a stand, bordered with a pink and white flower garland, is carried forward; a person in a red-and-gold headwrap ahead of it carries an offering tray. Several bare-chested men in orange-and-white dhotis walk with the procession, and two purple-and-gold umbrellas are held overhead. Many women in orange saris with bead necklaces and forehead markings walk in rows, some holding brass trays with lamps. Several people in white and Western casual clothes follow along the edge of the crowd. The scene reads as a temple-style procession with puja trays and a garlanded portrait.

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