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Outdoor scene at a crowded festival ground with dusty sand and bamboo-and-metal structures behind. In the centre a bearded naked sadhu with long matted hair tied in a topknot stands beside a red-covered table holding small jars, packets and sweets, holding a cigarette and a long wooden staff raised in one hand. He wears red and orange rudraksha malas across his chest. Around him stand several men: one in a red jacket and blue sweater holding the staff, another in a white cap and grey sweater, and a man in an orange turban and orange-and-black kurta at the right edge. A small framed portrait of a saffron-robed man hangs on a pole in the upper left, and a vendor in a dark vest works at the table.

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