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A photograph of a group of children and adult women gathered outdoors beside a flagpole on a white circular base, scattered with red flower petals and wrapped with a garland of marigolds and red blooms. The children wear white kurtas and dresses, some with tricolour ribbons or badges pinned to their clothes, and rudraksha malas around their necks; some stand barefoot on bare earth. Two adult women stand on the right, one in a cream and gold-bordered sari with a mala, the other in a white sari with a pink border. Strings of multicoloured triangular bunting stretch overhead across a rocky, tree-lined site, with unfinished concrete buildings in the background. Several other people are visible in the distance.

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Outdoor Independence Day ceremony at a whitewashed building with a corrugated roof, decorated with strings of colourful pennant flags. A woman in white and a woman in a cream sari stand at left; the woman in white holds a microphone and a sheet of paper. Children in white clothes, many wearing tricolour badges, stand in a row on sandy ground, while a man in white stands near a flagpole at right. Two figures in saffron-orange turbans and robes stand among the children. At right, girls in white dresses face a circular platform scattered with rose petals and a flower garland.2007-08-15Outdoor Independence Day flag-hoisting ceremony on a dusty ground in front of a white corrugated-roof building, with strings of colourful triangular bunting overhead. Two women in white saris at left, one holding a microphone and a sheet of paper, speak to a group of children in white clothes, many wearing tricolour badges. 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