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A photograph of a crowded covered walkway at a Kumbh Mela camp in India. In the centre, a smiling man in a red-orange turban and a gold-and-rudraksha necklace stands with palms pressed together in greeting, wearing a red-and-gold dhoti. Beside him, a saffron-robed sadhu with a saffron head wrap and long rudraksha mala walks forward. Behind them, turbaned and saffron-clad men and white-clad attendants fill the corridor. On the left, several seated sadhus with long beards and matted hair sit against the wall, and a camera operator with a video camera is at the lower right. Yellow umbrellas shelter people in the background.

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