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A large procession moves through a crowded festival road at an event gate decorated with blue banners showing a saffron-robed sadhu holding a staff, with Hindi text above. Several decorative umbrellas with gold and multicoloured fringed canopies are carried on red poles, and red flags wave among them. Men in white dhotis, some bare-chested with red and white shawls and gold-beaded necklaces, walk beside women in white saris with red borders. Others wear saffron dhotis or white vests, and a man in a white T-shirt in the foreground smiles while holding a phone. Onlookers press in from both sides, and a yellow-vested marshal walks near the front.

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