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A busy narrow street in Varanasi with motorcycles, pedestrians and shopfronts. In the centre, a man with long dark hair wears a leopard-print shawl over saffron-orange robes and a long rudraksha mala, with white sacred markings on his forehead. Beside him on the right, a shaven-headed man in white dhoti and white kurta wears an orange-red shawl and a necklace. A third man in white with an orange-red shawl and a white forehead mark walks on the left, holding a mobile phone to his ear. Behind them stand a seller's cart with mangoes and steel vessels, plastered walls and stacked blue buckets. Motorcycles and a red-and-white-plated bike sit at the left and right edges.

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