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Night photograph of a red Mahindra tractor, its headlights on, pulling a decorated float toward the camera. A man in a saffron-orange robe with a sash sits at the tractor wheel, smiling. Behind him a golden canopy with multicoloured fabric and garlands shelters a figure of a deity murti or decorated icon amid flower garlands and lamps. A man in a white dhoti with a gold border stands to the right at the roadside. Dark trees frame the left side of the scene. The float appears to be part of a procession.

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