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Street procession in a crowded Indian town. Saffron-robed sannyasis and devotees move along the road beneath a multicolored canopy umbrella with a golden finial, near a tall trident-topped staff. A central figure in saffron robes and beaded necklaces walks among them, with a white-clad priest beside him. Men in white shirts and dhotis, and some in pink shirts, follow closely, while drummers in the foreground play. Uniformed police officers line the edge of the street, and shops and a distant hill appear behind the crowd. The crowd here numbers well over twenty people.

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