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Flower power

— Photo: Vipin Chandran (photo gallery at www.thehindu.com)

Festival hues: Arrays of intricate floral patterns, traditionally associated with Kerala’s Onam festival, laid out by participants, mostly women, at The Hindu-MetroPlus Pookkalam Contest organised in Kochi on Saturday. A similar event was on in Thiruvananthapuram.

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