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Night procession on an open dirt ground with tractors decorated with lights and garlands. Two illuminated palanquin-style ratha or chariots carry deity murti under golden canopies, the nearer one richly carved and lit with warm yellow bulbs and multicoloured strings. A tractor at right carries a marigold garland and a registration plate. Standing in the foreground at left, a shaved-headed man wears a red-orange turban and a red-orange garment with a marigold garland and gold-trimmed cloth, seen from behind. Further back, several white-clad attendants stand near the tractors, and a small seated figure sits on a lit platform. Strings of coloured lights run across the background against the dark sky.

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November 22 20152015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22Night procession at a Hindu temple festival: several red Massey Ferguson-style tractors pull ornate, gold-painted temple chariots (ratha) lit with warm lights. The central tall multi-tiered shrine-chariot is topped with a kalasha-style spire and carries carved figures; to its right a smaller chariot holds a deity murti beneath a multicoloured parasol-canopy, and another canopied chariot stands on the far right. Attendants in white dhotis and shirts walk beside the vehicles and stand on the tractors; one man on the right wears a dark jacket. Garlands of yellow flowers hang on a tractor's front, and a painted sign with Kannada-style lettering appears on a tractor. Lights strung along the background and the dark night sky complete the scene.2015-11-22Night procession of illuminated temple chariots pulled by red tractors on a road. A tall golden ratha with tiered roof and warm lamp-lit niches leads, flanked by smaller decorated carts with striped canopies showing deity murtis and figures in gold and red. Two men in white sit at the tractor wheels, one in a white shirt beside a garlanded red tractor with registration plates reading KA 41 and KA 05. Strings of coloured lights glow in the background.2015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22November 22 20152015-11-22Night procession at a temple grounds with illuminated ratha-style floats carried on tractors, each topped with a golden canopy and gilded deity figures decorated with red and yellow fabric. Tractors are garlanded with yellow and green flower strands. On the right, a man in a rust-orange wrap with a red garland, hands folded in anjali, stands barefoot facing the floats. Other people in white dhotis and mixed clothing stand in the background, and colourful fairy lights hang on the right.2016-01-02January 02 20162016-01-02December 31 20152015-12-31