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Crowded evening event under a white tent with a painted backdrop of a snow-capped mountain beneath a blue and orange sky. Many people in white dhotis and white kurtas, with some in yellow shawls, stand and move around a raised stage. A woman in a pink sari holds a small brass aarti or ritual lamp aloft on the right. A man in the foreground with a white tilak on his forehead presses his palms together in greeting, and a bearded older man on the right also has his hands joined. Two people on the left wear orange cloth. A sound system and cables sit at the left edge.

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