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Outdoor cultural performance on a dusty ground beside a grey stone statue of a seated deity with long hair, next to a green mesh screen. Two performers in elaborate orange and gold costumes with large white fringed headdresses, pendant necklaces, rudraksha-style beads and ankle bells stand on a striped cloth mat, one holding a small drum. Behind them, drummers in orange, yellow and magenta kurtas and dhotis play frame drums while a man in a magenta shirt holds aloft a decorated palanquin or ratha covered in marigold garlands. A red carpet lies at the left edge. Sunlit trees and a lamp post frame the scene.

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