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Night street procession in a busy urban market area, with a large crowd of devotees holding small oil lamps and flames that light the scene. Many women wear saris in orange, red, blue and teal, with shawls draped over their shoulders. A man in front wears a white shirt with a round ribbon rosette pinned to his chest. Shopfronts and streetlights line the road, and a green cloth covers a raised platform on the left. The crowd fills the street, with people in the foreground and lamp-carrying devotees stretching into the background.

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