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A crowded indoor tent filled with ceremonial umbrellas and red flags. Several large parasols in gold brocade, purple, blue, green and multicoloured fabric with silver mirror-work fringes are raised above the crowd. Long red pennants hang on poles at left, and tasselled decorative streamers hang from the tent ceiling. Among the people, a woman with light hair in a dark patterned top stands at left, and a woman in a green embroidered kurta walks at centre. Men in white kurtas and dark jackets move through the crowd. The floor is covered in red matting. No a person candidate is clearly identifiable among the visible people.

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