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A busy outdoor street procession in an Indian city under a canopy of strung bunting and small triangular pennants. In the foreground a woman with red-orange hair and a light yellow top holds a large red flag with silver tassels, beside a red-and-white flag on a pole. A crowd of many men in white shirts, striped polos and cream headcloths walks along the road, some holding phones to take photos. A white clock tower with red accents stands in the background, and a red-and-white decorated cart or float with flower garlands is visible at right beneath yellow umbrellas. Trucks and a tanker are parked along the roadside shops.

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A large street procession moves through a crowded Indian town square lined with colourful festoon flags strung across the road. Dense crowds of men and women in light clothing fill the street, many in white and pastel saffron tones, with numerous uniformed police officers holding lines along the edges and barricades. Many red flags are raised above the crowd, and several umbrellas in red, pink, blue and yellow shade a palanquin-style float or ratha at centre. A white clock tower and white ornate buildings frame the scene, and a white vehicle waits at right. A banner at the front of the float shows a portrait of a seated figure with a printed caption in Devanagari script.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A large outdoor procession moves through a busy city square under a white clock tower with two clock faces and a tiered white base with red accents. Strings of multicoloured pennant flags stretch across the street overhead. A decorated float or palanquin draped in red and gold sits at the centre of a dense crowd, with saffron-clad participants and numerous people in white and orange around it. Many open umbrellas in blue, yellow and red shade the crowd, and a few police officers stand near yellow barricades on the left. Vehicles and motorbikes line the road beyond the crowd.2016-04-18Outdoor street procession through a crowded city road under strings of colourful triangular bunting. A decorated palanquin-style float with a gold canopy is carried at the centre, surrounded by red and orange flags and many coloured umbrellas. Many devotees and robed participants in white and saffron clothing walk alongside, with uniformed police officers in khaki lining the route. A white multi-storey building with red trim stands on the left, and a row of parked vehicles lies to the right. Thousands of spectators crowd the scene; the crowd is too dense to count precisely.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18Elevated view of a large street procession in an Indian town. A dense crowd fills the road under strings of colourful bunting, with many people in white and saffron clothing. Red flags and multicoloured umbrellas, including pink, blue, red and yellow ones, are raised above the crowd. A decorated float or raised platform with a white canopy and red drapes moves through the street, and a printed banner on its front shows a portrait and Hindi text. Uniformed police officers line the road beside barriers. White clock tower and colonial-style buildings with shop signs frame the scene.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A dense outdoor street procession under strings of colourful triangular pennants. Red flags on poles rise above the crowd, and many open umbrellas in pink, yellow, blue, teal and orange are held aloft. In the centre, a richly decorated golden palanquin or ratha carries a deity murti under a gold canopy, pulled or escorted by a vehicle in the foreground. Robed participants in saffron and orange move alongside, some playing drums, while a large crowd of onlookers in mixed clothing lines both sides of the road. White colonial-style buildings and a tanker truck frame the street.2016-04-18