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Night street procession in a town centre. A deity murti is carried on a palanquin decorated with a large umbrella-like canopy in red, orange, blue and silver panels with gold fringe, and heavily garlanded with yellow, red and white flower strands. Bearers in purple cloth carry the palanquin on poles. Shopfronts, a lit neon sign and overhead wires line the street, and devotees watch from the lower right, one man in a white shirt in the foreground.

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