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A procession on a dusty road at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad during the cold morning haze. Many devotees, mostly women in white and cream saris and white dhotis with red borders, march holding bright orange-red flags on poles, some with red shawls. A man in the right foreground wears a white dhoti with a red lower cloth, rudraksha beads and a gold-tipped staff, and walks with a bare upper body. Tall decorated poles and a roadside watchtower and signboard appear behind the group.

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