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A large outdoor crowd of devotees stands on dusty ground beneath leafy trees and a corrugated shelter at a person Spurana Program gathering. Most people wear white, with men in white shirts and dhotis and women in white or light-patterned saris and salwar-style outfits, several holding small round hand drums or cymbal-like instruments. A woman in an orange sari and a woman in red and pink stand at left, and a man in a lilac shirt is in the foreground. The gathering appears to be a group ritual or satsang session in Salem, Tamil Nadu.

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