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Night procession with bright stage lights and ornate umbrellas (chattris) decorated with fairy lights behind the crowd. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and a bearer in a white vest carry a red palanquin-style frame on their shoulders. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a gold border stands at right beside a drummer playing a large metal drum. A cameraman with a shoulder-mounted video camera films the crowd. The crowd presses close, with several men wearing white and gold garments.

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December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23A night-time festival crowd of many devotees dancing and cheering in front of illuminated decorations. Men in white shirts, white dhotis and a man with a bare chest and orange-yellow turban play drums and dance with raised arms. Several large ornate umbrellas in red, orange and blue overhead, with a lit temple chariot and illuminated structures behind. A woman in white with a plaited hair bun is in the foreground. Strings of coloured lights line the background. The people here are devotees in procession, not identifiable as a specific individual, and no clearly distinctive a person cues are visible.2016-12-23Night procession photographed in a dense crowd lit by bright blue and white stage lights. Yellow and orange umbrellas with sequined borders rise above the crowd on the left, and red umbrellas appear behind them. Several men in white shirts and dhotis, some with bare shoulders, raise their arms; one man in a white shirt holds a video camera overhead. Brightly decorated deity figures and ornate chariot-style floats with colourful garlands and tinsel strings are visible in the centre. Many people are crowded shoulder to shoulder, and a bald man in white with rudraksha beads stands near the right foreground.2016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23Night procession at a temple-style festival: drummers in orange and white turbans and red-fringed costumes play drums in the foreground while a crowd surrounds them. Behind them, colourful paper parasols in yellow, red and green are raised, and a decorated ratha or palanquin with flower garlands and lights stands in the background under bright floodlight. Many devotees in white dhotis and orange headcloths move through the street.2016-12-23Night procession with a dense crowd of devotees filling a road lit by bright stage lights and strings of fairy lights. Umbrellas with gold and pink fringe and sequined trim are held overhead. In the centre foreground a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a saffron-yellow border and red-and-white beaded wrist strings raises his hand and dances. Nearby, people in colourful costumes with feathered and peacock-style headdresses and painted faces move through the procession. a person presence cannot be confirmed from the visible figures.2016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23