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A crowded narrow city street procession seen from above, with many people walking in a dense crowd beneath colourful umbrellas in blue, orange, red, maroon and yellow. Several umbrellas are carried aloft over a group of people in white clothes and red sashes, while red and orange flags wave overhead. Onlookers line the balconies and street edges. Shops on both sides display signboards and a large hoarding showing portraits of smiling young men. Metal vessels in the foreground suggest a festival setting.

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April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A dense street procession in a crowded Indian town, with a large throng of people filling a narrow market lane lined with shops and hanging banners. Several men in saffron and orange robes carry tall red flags and carry or walk beneath colourful umbrella-like canopies in blue, yellow, maroon and purple with gold fringe. Many onlookers in white, pastel and bright saffron clothing press along the road, and shopfronts display a green signboard reading a puja supply shop. Above, large printed portrait banners hang on the buildings.2016-04-18A dense street procession in a narrow Indian town lane lined with shops and multistorey buildings. Many people crowd the road, and many carry colourful umbrellas in orange, red, blue and maroon, some with fringed edges, above their heads. Tall red and saffron flags wave above the crowd. Large hoardings on the right show portraits and a greeting for a Mitra Mandal in Ujjain, and a shop sign reads Puja Bhandar on the left. Overhead tangled electric wires cross the street.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A dense street procession moves through a narrow market lane in an Indian town, with a large crowd packed along both sides and on balconies. Many devotees in white clothing walk beneath colourful umbrellas in orange, red, blue and yellow, while numerous tall red flags are carried above the crowd. Shop signs, hanging banners and a billboard line the street, and a camera operator is visible near the centre. The scene is a public procession rather than a close view of any single figure; no individual is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance.2016-04-18A dense street procession moves through a crowded Indian town lane lined with shops and balconies. Many colourful umbrellas dominate the view, in red, blue, orange and yellow with fringed edges, carried over the heads of marchers. Red triangular flags on poles rise above the crowd. Spectators fill the balconies and street, and shopfronts and hoardings with Hindi signage frame the scene. A large framed portrait panel with several faces appears at the upper right, but the procession participants themselves are too distant and crowded to individually describe.2016-04-18A street procession in an Indian town fills a narrow road lined with white multi-storey buildings and shopfronts. Many robed participants in saffron and orange garments walk beneath colourful parasols in pink, red, blue, yellow and green, while red flags on tall poles rise through the crowd. Uniformed police officers line the route and bystanders watch from balconies and the roadside. Further ahead an ornate golden palanquin or ratha carries a decorated figure under a gilded canopy. A hanging banner on the left shows a painted figure in red. Vehicles and onlookers fill the background, and the scene reads as a religious procession.2016-04-18A dense street procession fills a narrow market lane with crowds of people in white and saffron-coloured clothing, many wearing red-and-orange garments and rudraksha-style necklaces. Large colourful umbrellas in orange, yellow, red and blue are carried above the marchers, and red flags on tall poles rise through the crowd. Uniformed police officers walk among the procession. A decorated float or palanquin with a golden canopy is visible further up the street, with shops, balconies and hanging signs lining both sides of the lane.2016-04-18A crowded street procession in an Indian town. Dense crowds fill the road and balconies, with many people holding bright blue, orange and red canopy umbrellas that shade a procession moving through the lanes. Red flags flutter above the crowd. Shopfronts line both sides, with a large banner of welcome and felicitation portraits hung above, and a sign reading Annapurna Bhakti Bhandar. The scene is a city procession of devotees and onlookers; no individual figure is clearly identifiable as a person.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A dense crowd fills a narrow market street lined with shops, hanging wires and large hoardings. Many red flags and colourful umbrellas (chhatris in blue, maroon, yellow and orange) are carried above a procession moving through the throng. Several robed sadhus in saffron and orange clothing walk near the front, some in white dhotis with bare upper bodies and rudraksha malas. Shopfronts show signs for a puja bhandar and a sarafi bhandari, and a large banner on the right shows many framed portraits of men under a deity image. The scene suggests a religious procession through a city bazaar.2016-04-18