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A large crowd of women and men fills a village street during a welcome procession. Many women in saris and salwar kameez carry brass trays heaped with fruit, bananas, coconuts, sweets and flowers on their heads, several wearing jasmine garlands in their hair. Orange and yellow saffron-coloured pennants stretch across the street above the crowd, and a green passenger bus is visible in the background among the people. The scene is an outdoor village festival procession with offerings. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person in this view.

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