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A dense night crowd of devotees fills a street during the Kodikkan Ratha Pada Yatra, with many women in colourful saris and salwar kameez and children in close-packed rows. Several women wear white and red vibhuti or kumkum marks on their foreheads, and a woman in a pink and yellow sari stands near the centre. A boy in a cream shirt and dark trousers stands in the foreground, and some people hold small papers or flowers. Street lamps and bokeh lights glow in the background.

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