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A dense crowd of devotees raises offerings high in a daytime outdoor procession. Many hands hold brass trays piled with fruit, including a large green jackfruit held aloft at centre, along with pineapples, mangoes, limes and oranges. Behind them, several decorative parasols in red, blue, yellow and orange with tasselled fringes, bearing dove emblems and gold motifs, are held up over the crowd. A white bus with a windscreen reading 'Nithyanandam' is visible at right, and a saffron flag flies above a white building with two water tanks on its roof. Many people raise cameras or phones. Some men wear white shirts and dhotis, and several people wear bright tilaks. A bearded man in a yellow shirt stands near the centre-left.

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