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Night procession photograph in a covered hall with a corrugated roof and red pillars. In the centre a smiling man with long swept-back dark hair wears an orange-saffron shawl over an orange garment and a dark rudraksha mala, and gestures with one hand toward a decorated palanquin. Behind him an attendant in an orange dhoti and shawl and a man in a white-and-patterned cap stand near a flaming torch. On the right a richly decorated ratha-style palanquin with yellow and white garlands, colourful striped panels and banana leaves stands above a table draped in orange cloth holding brass plates, a kalasha-like vessel and a flower-strewn tray. A man in a white t-shirt holds an orange and white ceremonial umbrella on the left. Garlands of yellow and purple flowers hang along the table edge.

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