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Outdoor festival procession under orange and red umbrellas with colourful streamers overhead. A central smiling man wears a white turban, a long white and red-tinted flower garland, an orange robe and a rudraksha-style neck mala, with hands pressed together in greeting. Around him stand men in dark suits and white shirts, and many women and girls in white salwar kameez with orange trim, some with hands raised. A man in an orange robe with a red shawl faces him from the left, and confetti falls among the crowd in the foreground. Crowd of roughly 50 visible people.

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