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A dense street procession moves through a town lined with small shops and tall palms, with a hill rising behind. Hundreds of men in white shirts and dhotis walk closely together, many carrying bright orange-saffron flags on poles. Several figures in front hold large decorated umbrella-style standards and ornate palanquin-like processional elements, with a large ornamented ratha or chariot visible further ahead among the crowd. Onlookers stand on the roadside and at shop fronts beside parked motorbikes. Roadside flags in red, black and green fly from a building on the right. The scene reads as a festival procession through a South Indian town.

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