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Outdoor photo at dusk of a crowd gathered around a decorated seated figure under an ornate orange-and-maroon canopy with fringed umbrella. The central figure wears orange robes and sits on a red-and-white draped platform or palanquin. Around them, drummers in blue shirts and white dhotis play large drums on the left. Many boys and young men in white kurtas, red and orange shirts, and yellow kurtas surround the platform; one boy in white holds a white ball. Metal scaffolding, a green-roofed structure and palm trees stand in the background under a pale sky. Several people in white clothes stand at the right edge. a person candidate appears in orange robes, probable by appearance cues: an orange-robed figure seated centrally. Crowd of roughly twenty to forty visible people.

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