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Night street procession in a busy city road. A large decorated ratha or float, lit with bright lamps and draped with floral garlands and flowers, carries a deity murti in front of a crowd of devotees. Many men in white dhotis and shirts, and others in plain shirts and trousers, press close around the float and the road. Two-wheeler motorcycles are parked in the foreground, and a white auto-rickshaw with a yellow-striped canopy is at right beside the crowd. Strings of yellow bunting hang over the street, and shops and street lights glow in the background.

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