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A street procession in a Tamil Nadu town, photographed from above. Many men in white dhotis and white shirts walk along a wet road lined with parked motorcycles, auto-rickshaws and a red truck. A man in white with an orange-saffron shawl holds up a lit flaming torch, with smoke rising from it. Several men wear orange shawls, and one bald man in a white dhoti walks at the front with his hands folded. Trees and buildings line the roadside, and a timestamp in the corner reads 4 17:13.

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