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Night outdoor cultural performance on a bare dirt ground. A man in a light blue shirt and dark trousers, barefoot, bends forward while swinging a long flexible whip or cane overhead, its arc visible in motion. Behind him a seated audience in white ritual clothes sits on white plastic chairs and on the ground, many with hands pressed in prayer. Standing on the right, a man in white dhoti and shirt holds a stick, and another in white with an orange cloth stands beside a drum. A blue banner hangs at the upper right, and a few lamps and vessels sit on the ground at the far right.

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