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Evening outdoor event photographed at night under string lights with orange pennants. A seated figure in a saffron-orange turban and saffron robe, wearing a white flower garland and beaded yellow-and-amber necklace, reaches forward to place a red thread or mala over the head of a young child in a grey-and-white patterned dress. A man in a white shirt kneels with head bowed in front of the child, a woman in an orange sari stands beside, and a man in white with a beaded mala waits nearby. Behind them a large crowd of people in white clothing stands along bamboo barriers. A digital clock displays 7:15 at right.