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Evening photograph of a multi-storey building with red scalloped balconies and yellow walls, its upper floors crowded with onlookers leaning over the railings and some photographing with cameras. Below, at street level, seated saffron-robed sadhus and devotees sit on red mats under a blue-lit canopy, with a figure in white and orange garments at centre. A sign on the building reads Shahi Snan Marg. The scene suggests a large gathering at night.

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