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Aerial view of a dense crowd filling a narrow street in a South Indian town, with many devotees in white dhotis and kurtas and some wearing orange or saffron shawls, moving behind a decorated palanquin-style float topped with colourful umbrella-like canopies and yellow bunting. Shopfronts with a carved temple facade on the left and hanging yellow and green pennants overhead line the lane. Men and women in white and pastel clothes fill the foreground, while people watch from the sides. Painted signs hang on walls, and the procession appears to be a religious procession through the town.

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