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Outdoor photo of a Janmashtami-style pot-breaking game on bare dusty ground under an overcast sky. A clay pot is suspended from a rope between two tall metal poles at the top of the frame. A man in a black shirt and dark trousers leaps in the air, swinging a stick toward the pot while water sprays around him. Around him, several people throw water from red, green and blue buckets and cups, including a woman in a light blue top and grey trousers at left, and a woman in a white salwar outfit at right. A monk in orange-red robes with a bald head stands at left beside blue plastic drums. Several onlookers in casual clothes stand in the background. No one is identified as the a person.

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