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Night-time street scene at a residential house entrance with banana leaves and a parked car behind. A man in a brown-maroon dhoti and matching shawl stands centre, wearing a long multicoloured flower garland of red, yellow and green blooms, with bangles on his wrists. Around him, young boys in saffron-orange robes and rudraksha malas stand at left, and an older man in orange shirt and white dhoti walks beside him. Women in red and maroon saris stand at right; one carries a small silver-rimmed plate or tray and another holds a baby wrapped in white. Several onlookers watch from the gate and doorway in the background.

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