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A street procession moves along a busy town road lined with shops and palm trees. Decorated chariot-style carts with red flags and floral garlands are pulled by a blue tractor, with a palanquin-like float under a canopy at the front. Several people walk alongside, including a woman in an orange and red sari and a man in a pink shirt. Shop signs include MAK Lubricants and a red-and-white banner. Onlookers stand at the roadside.

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Street procession in an Indian town. Two tractors draped in red cloth with flower garlands carry decorated deity murti and palanquin-style canopies with red-and-yellow umbrellas, flanked by red saffron flags. Pedestrians, a uniformed police officer and a motorcyclist move along the road beside shops, a tree and a minaret. Shop signs advertise machinery and tools, and a woman in a red-and-yellow saree walks at the right edge.2016-04-18A street procession moves along a palm-lined road in an Indian town. Two tractors draped in red cloth and decorated with flower garlands carry golden palanquin-style structures with ornate canopies and red flags. A standing figure in white dhoti on the left tractor, and white-clad men walk beside the vehicles. Crowds of pedestrians in mixed clothing fill the roadside, with shops and multi-storey buildings behind, and a uniformed police officer visible among onlookers.2016-04-18A street procession in a busy Indian town. Two tractor-drawn floats decorated with red cloth, marigold garlands and red flags lead the way, with a red-draped float on the right carrying figures and flowers, and a yellow umbrella over a decorated seat. A uniformed police officer in khaki walks beside the right float. Pedestrians, a woman in a white sari and a woman with a blue umbrella line the road, and motorcycles are parked along shopfronts under a sky with scattered clouds. Shop signs include Mahadev and Agri-related advertisements.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A crowded street procession in an Indian town, with dense crowds of men, women and children walking along a narrow road lined with shops and multi-storey buildings. An orange-draped vehicle with garlands of white and red flowers and an orange umbrella leads the procession, followed by a decorated float with red and orange flags and a figure in white and red at its centre. Strings of colourful bunting cross the street, and red banners hang from poles on the right. Some onlookers watch from rooftops and balconies.2016-04-18A crowded street procession in a town with white multi-storey buildings, overhead wires and small shops. Many people in dhotis, kurtas, saris and salwar kameez fill the road. On the left a decorated float with gold canopies and flower garlands is pulled by a blue tractor, with red flags flying. On the right a red-draped open vehicle carries a figure in white clothing and a red sash, shaded by a large ornate umbrella, with flowers along its edge. Red and white umbrellas line the sidewalk beside shops selling goods. A banner with a portrait of a saint hangs on a building at left.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A street procession in an Indian town moves past multi-storey buildings with shop signs. Uniformed police in khaki with caps and batons walk alongside, and volunteers in yellow t-shirts with lanyards guide the crowd. Behind them a decorated open vehicle carries a seated figure in a golden-trimmed setting under a gold canopy, with red flags on tall poles and marigold garlands. A man in saffron robes walks ahead, and white-clad attendants accompany the ratha. A tractor at the right carries men in white and checked shirts. Spectators line the street, some waving.2016-04-18Street procession in a busy Indian city lane lined with shops, signboards and a Sony and Airtel storefront. A decorated tractor-drawn float carries a canopied ornate golden umbrella over a saffron-clad figure seated with red and gold garlands. Crowds of devotees and onlookers, many in white kurtas and some in yellow or red shirts, press around the float. Uniformed police officers in khaki walk alongside. Red and yellow ceremonial flags on tall poles and several colourful umbrellas, including a turquoise and white one, accompany the procession. Several people raise their hands in greeting.2016-04-18