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A street procession in a village lane lined with onlookers. In the foreground a man in white dhoti and shirt plays a long brass wind instrument, and beside him a drummer in white carries a drum slung with a blue cloth. Behind them a group of men in white dhotis and saffron-orange shawls walk with a man in white holding a brass kalasha-style vessel on a tray, while women in saris and children crowd the roadside under terracotta-roofed houses. A kolam design is drawn on the road. Nobody in the scene is identifiable as a person by visible cues.

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