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A festival procession photograph in bright daylight. A man in a dark suit with a red turban and a woman wearing a red-and-orange sari with a white jasmine-style garland sit side by side on an ornate silver-coloured palanquin or ratha seat with embossed floral and sunburst designs. Above them are colourful striped umbrellas with red tassels and balloons in red, pink, purple, green and yellow. Crowd members in the foreground and at the right edge watch, one man in white at the lower right wears glasses. Balloons are tied to the seat and umbrella frame.

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