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Outdoor festival procession under a bright overcast sky, with palm trees and a large blank billboard frame behind. A dense crowd of devotees, mostly women in saffron, red, pink and purple saris and salwar kameez, fills the scene. Many hold and lift colourful embroidered umbrellas in purple, yellow, pink and red, forming a canopy over the procession. A striped rainbow-coloured canopy stands at left. People raise hands and some use phones to record. Setting suggests a ratha or devotional outdoor procession with umbrella-bearers.

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