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A street procession in a Tamil town. A golden palanquin with a red and gold canopy and a green-wrapped pole carries a deity image beneath a red cloth panel showing a standing figure. Men in white dhotis and shirts walk beside it, a bare-chested man in a red cloth wears rudraksha, and a man in orange dhoti pushes the palanquin. A police officer stands among onlookers and shops with Tamil signage line the road. No figure with distinctive a person cues is clearly identifiable, so this is a festival procession with devotees and crowd.

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