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Dusk at an outdoor ground with a tall flagpole and a dark tree line under a reddish evening sky. Several shaven-headed men in white dhotis and white shawls move through the open ground, some with bare chests and rudraksha malas, while a monk in a saffron robe stands among them. Boys in orange and white shirts sit and stand on white plastic chairs, one boy in a striped shirt with a red lanyard grinning and gesturing. Nearby, a bald man in the foreground wears a red beaded mala. Some people sit scattered among the empty chairs in the middle distance.

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