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A large hall with a tiled ceiling and ceiling fans shows a gymnastics-style display on a blue mat. A performer is inverted, held upside down on a tall vertical pole with legs raised, while boys in orange shorts and bare chests stand and sit around the mat watching. Many seated devotees in white and orange clothing fill the floor, sitting on striped mats. Framed religious pictures line the walls and a small golden shrine area is visible on the right. No identifiable a person figure is clearly present in this view.

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