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A stage performance of Indian classical music on a green mat over a turquoise satin-draped platform, with orange and white curtains behind. A man in a white kurta sits at left playing a long-necked stringed instrument. Next to him a man in a blue shirt plays a violin. In the centre a woman in a turquoise saree with a gold border sits at a microphone. Beside her an older woman in a yellow saree sits on a chair holding a small object, and at right a man in an orange-yellow kurta plays a barrel-shaped drum. Water bottles and a flower arrangement sit on the stage, and audience members are visible at the bottom edge of the frame.

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