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Night procession on a dirt ground lit by string lights and decorated umbrellas. A man in the centre wears a dark red-maroon robe and a long multicolour flower garland with a red tassel, smiling as he walks. Beside him a bald man with white-marked forehead and arms, in a red-maroon dhoti with gold borders, walks with a shawl and rudraksha-style beads, and another man in a similar gold-bordered dhoti follows. Several women in red and orange saris and men in white dhotis walk alongside, some holding long silver-topped staffs and white-and-silver ceremonial umbrellas. A man in white stands on a raised platform in the background, and a blue-and-green lit tree decorates the area. The scene resembles a ceremonial procession.

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