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A grey minivan with a front guard and an orange flag on its bonnet drives along a dirt road at a Kumbh Mela site, with a crowd of men lining the route. A bald man in an orange robe with a beaded wooden mala necklace stands at right, raising his arm. Other men in white kurtas, orange and purple robes, and shawls press their palms together or gesture toward the vehicle. Behind them stand an orange and blue tent, a large grey backdrop with a painted temple archway and figure, and a distant red temple spire under a hazy sky.