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Outdoor photo of a large crowd of children and a few adults sitting on the ground under shady trees, facing a red-painted raised platform. On the platform stands a statue of a seated figure in white draped cloth with a dark-skinned deity-like figure beside it, set within a stone arch. Many children wear white shirts, checked and patterned shirts, and some girls wear salwar kameez in turquoise, red and orange. An adult woman in a light turquoise salwar kameez with a long braid sits at the left foreground. The ground is bare dirt with a few plants at the edges.

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