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A performer in a pink top and shorts hangs upside down from a wooden pole, legs extended upward and hair falling downward, during a gymnastic or mallakhamb-style display. Beneath, a man in a dark orange-and-black zippered jacket stands at the left edge looking toward the pole. The ceiling is hung with many colourful cloth streamers and paper lanterns in red, yellow, blue and green, with bright white lights and a white draped canopy overhead. No identifiable a person figure is visible.

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December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21A young woman performs a balancing pole-gymnastics routine, her body extended horizontally on a tall wooden pole in a large hall. Below, a man in a navy tracksuit stands near the pole, and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti stands at left. Many shirtless men and onlookers watch from the surrounding crowd on a blue mat. Overhead hang rows of colourful paper lanterns and umbrella-shaped decorations in orange, red, yellow and green. The white ceiling and drapery frame the event.2016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21A photograph, rotated sideways, of a festive hall decorated with rows of colourful paper lanterns and cone-shaped streamers in orange, yellow, green, red and blue hanging from the white ceiling. In the centre a performer in an orange-red outfit with a fitted top and loose sleeves is suspended mid-air, arms spread, gripping a horizontal bar, with a curved rope overhead. Along the left edge rows of seated people in white and dark clothes watch, and a man in a white shirt with a badge stands near the top left. Greenish sparkling ornaments hang on the right.2016-12-21December 21 20162016-12-21A photograph of a shirtless, slender figure with long wet-looking dark hair and a bead necklace standing on a wooden pole with arms outstretched, a man in dark clothing crouching below at left. The setting is a decorated hall with a white fabric ceiling, wooden beams, and hanging colourful cylindrical lanterns and paper-fan style decorations in orange, pink, yellow, green and blue. The figure wears orange-pink shorts.2016-12-21