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Outdoor festival scene under a white canopy at a Gurupoornima celebration. An older man in a white shirt with a saffron-orange shawl and garlands, wearing glasses, leans forward toward a woman in a white sari with a black mangalsutra and gold earrings who is bending over and tying or offering something. Behind them a man in a lavender shirt and a smiling young woman in an orange shawl look on. In the foreground a figure in a red sleeveless top and orange cloth holds a staff with an orange flag, and a brass vessel with red cloth sits near the bottom. Several people stand in the background under white tent fabric.

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