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A large crowd of devotees sits closely packed under a temporary pandal decorated with banana stalks, palm fronds and colourful woven bunting in orange, red and white. Most men wear white shirts and white dhotis, some with saffron or orange shawls, and a few wear dark jackets or caps. Women in cotton saris, including one in pink and one in red, sit among them. Several people in the foreground have their eyes closed as if in meditation or prayer. Standing figures at the back watch the gathering, and strings of beads hang in the upper right. No individual can be confidently identified as a person from this view.

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