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A street procession in daylight with a row of decorated vehicles and red flags. Several large red flags with printed portraits flutter in the foreground, one showing a figure in orange and gold turban-like headwear. A vehicle at left has a pink and gold canopy and garlands of white and purple flowers; a woman in a pink headscarf sits near the flowers. Crowds of onlookers in shirts and kurtas line the road in the right foreground. On the right, a tall vertical banner shows a portrait labelled "Paramahamsa Nithyananda" in a red turban and garland, alongside other printed posters. Utility poles and bare trees line the street under a pale sky.

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