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Outdoor Holi celebration in a palm-lined compound with a concrete block wall and parked vehicles behind. Participants are splashed with coloured powder and wet paint: boys in dark, stained shirts, a woman in a pink-and-purple dress, and a long-haired woman in a multicoloured top. A bald man in white with glasses smiles at the centre of the group. Crowd members in white and pastel shirts stand at the back, and teal and green balloons hang at the right. Flagpoles rise from the courtyard. a person candidate is the bald man in white, but his appearance is not distinctive enough to confirm identity.

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Outdoor Holi celebration at an open ground lined with coconut palms and a grey block wall. Many boys and young men, their clothes and faces smeared with bright pink, purple, orange and green powder, crowd around a water pot suspended from a rope-and-pole frame, one boy holding a green cup and water splashing from the pot. Behind them a larger crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis, plus women in white and saris, watch and stand near a yellow auto-rickshaw. Colourful balloons in red, pink, teal and green hang at the left and right edges. A man in a floral shirt with pink-stained hair stands at right. Some balloons and flags add festive colour. A photograph of a Holi festival event with a pot-breaking style game.2008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22Outdoor Holi celebration in a palm-lined compound with a block wall behind. A crowd of dozens of men, women and children stands watching, many in white dhotis and white shirts with pendant necklaces. In the foreground a young man in a pink-stained kurta sprays a stream of water from a hose, and several boys in purple- and maroon-stained shirts stand near a tall pole. Terracotta pots hang from the pole and colourful balloons in red, green, blue and pink are tied to it. A white van and motorbikes are parked behind the crowd, and small flags flutter along the wall. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person.2008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22A Holi celebration in an open dirt courtyard with palm trees and a low block wall behind. Many people are covered in pink, purple, red and blue powder paint, several wearing dhotis and saris in faded reds and purples. Some stand in a crowd with hands raised, while others gather around a metal bucket on the left. Pink, white, blue and green balloons float near the center. A tall pole with hanging pots, a traditional Holi setup, rises at right. Spectators in white shirts and light clothing stand along the back, and a few parked white vehicles sit beyond the wall. No figure in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person.2008-03-22Holi celebration in an open outdoor yard with palm trees and a grey block wall behind. A crowd of spectators in white shirts and dhotis stands watching on the left and back, while in the foreground a dense mass of revellers is drenched and smeared with coloured powder. A man in a red shirt holds a red bucket spraying a jet of water upward, and others throw water and carry blue and red buckets. Several people hold bright balloons, green, red and pink. A tall wooden pole stands in the centre. Many participants have coloured faces and clothes stained with colour, and motorbikes and a yellow auto-rickshaw sit in the background. No deity or a person depiction is visible.2008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22Outdoor Holi celebration in a palm-lined compound with a concrete block wall behind. Many people are splashed with colored powder and water; several men and boys in dyed, multicolored clothing throw water and spray from buckets and squirt guns. Hanging from a wooden pole overhead are painted clay pots with white cloth, with colorful balloons floating nearby. A large crowd of onlookers in white shirts and mundus stands in the background, and a man with long hair in a purple-stained kurta stands center, holding a bucket. Bright colored powder covers many clothes.2008-03-22A photo of a large outdoor Holi celebration in a palm-lined compound with a low block wall behind. A dense crowd of many people, mostly adults and some children, stands and dances, their white and pale clothes splashed with pink, red, orange and purple powder. A tall wooden pole stands at the centre. A man in a saffron-orange wrap and long swept-back hair stands near the middle, with another man in a dark blue kurta beside him; the orange-robed figure's appearance matches the page's reference to a person, but the match is not certain. Parked vehicles and spectators in white line the back of the courtyard, and a blue sign hangs on a pole at left.2008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22March 22 20082008-03-22