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A dense street procession moves past a green arched gateway lettered in Kannada, under a clear sky with palm trees. A decorated ratha or palanquin with a red and gold canopy and a white floral-garlanded seat is carried through the crowd. Colourful parasols in yellow, blue and red shade the procession. Women in red, blue and green silk saris with jasmine in their hair walk alongside, and a bald man in an orange-saffron shawl stands in the foreground beside a man in a white shirt and glasses. Uniformed police and many onlookers fill the street, with loudspeakers on a scaffold at left.

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