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A night photograph of an ornate festival entrance gate lit with strings of warm white fairy lights and green lights. The gate has red and cream tiered towers with cream lattice ornaments and circular light rings on top, and a saffron flag flies from the central spire. A cream banner across the front bears Devanagari text, and a small framed portrait of a bearded saint in saffron-toned robes is at the left end of the banner. Below, a white canopy and a red-draped doorway sit beneath hanging bulbs. No people are visible.

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