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A tug-of-war contest on a dirt ground at an outdoor ashram event. Men in white kurtas and white dhotis pull a thick rope in the foreground, leaning back with bent knees while a bare-headed man in a white shirt and dhoti grips the rope. Behind them a long line of participants in white and blue clothing lines the rope, and a dense crowd of spectators sits and stands along the edges. Several onlookers in blue and white shirts with lanyards sit in front, and a red flag on a pole rises at the centre. Unfinished concrete buildings and trees appear in the background under a pale sky. No one in the image is clearly identifiable as the a person with the cues required for a candidate label.

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