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Outdoors on a bare dirt ground, children play a tug-of-war with a thick rope. On the left, boys in red and orange sportswear and sandals pull one end, while a boy in a white kurta and dhoti pulls with them. On the right, a bald man in a white kurta and white sneakers stands facing the line, and a woman in a white sari with a greying bun and a woman in an orange sari watch nearby. Behind them, a crowd of seated and standing devotees, many in white, sits beneath palm trees and a tent, with a girl in green and a woman in a striped shawl at the right edge.

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