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A street procession moves between pink-washed buildings with arched balconies, where spectators watch from upper floors. Women in white saris with red borders carry red and blue flag poles, and some wear red shawls. Ahead, a decorated palanquin or ratha draped in red and orange cloth and garlands moves forward, with a figure in white at its center. On the left, a young man in a dark patterned top and a woman in purple watch and photograph the procession. A red and white banner in the lower right shows a portrait and Devanagari text.

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