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A long procession of women walks along a dirt road between red-brick compound walls and green trees. Most wear white saris or white dhoti-style clothing with red shoulder cloths, and several wear sindoor or sacred ash marks on their foreheads. Two women in the foreground carry black bundles and a bright orange flag is raised near the front. A woman in a yellow sari walks in the middle. A small framed portrait is carried at the front of the line, but its subject is not clearly visible. Water pipes and cut vegetation line the roadside, and the scene looks like a walking pilgrimage line on an ashram road.

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