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A festival procession on a red carpet outdoors, with several colourful striped umbrellas with gold finials held aloft. Central figures in saffron-orange robes wear long orange garlands; the man at centre-left with a large dark beard and a bare-chested figure in saffron clothing lead the group. A drummer in orange garments and a white dhoti plays a drum at right. Men and women in white ceremonial clothes and a woman in a pink-red shawl walk alongside. Some people carry staffs. A pink tent canopy and a white van are in the background, with a partly constructed site and apartment blocks behind.

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