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A young man in a white short-sleeved shirt and white trousers walks barefoot along a narrow path, palms pressed together in namaste, through a shallow channel of dark water and gravel. Behind him, a crowd of devotees dressed in white, including women in white saris with gold borders and others in pink, green and teal, stands along a rope line beneath tall coconut palms and a white canopy tent. Another man in white kurta walks barefoot beside the channel on the right, and devotees in white look on, some with hands folded in devotion. The scene suggests a ritual walk through a water path during a festival.

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