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A dense night crowd fills a riverside ghat during the Ujjain Kumbh Mela, with many people pressed together and several raising smartphones to photograph. Bright white street lamps and illuminated shrines glow in the background, with colourful lit temple facades on the left. Numerous tall red and orange flags and large yellow and orange umbrellas rise above the crowd, and a dark vehicle is visible in the middle of the throng. Men in shirts and caps dominate the foreground, some wearing camouflage caps. No individual can be identified as a person with confidence from the visible scene.