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Four men walk across a dry dirt ground beside a hillside of green scrub. Two men in orange and gold-bordered cloth hold up bright yellow-orange umbrellas over the central figures. The man in front wears an orange garment with a gold border, a gold belt, multiple gold necklaces, a long white pendant, bangles and a rudraksha mala, with his hair swept back. Behind him, a man in orange with a gold-bordered cloth and a rudraksha mala holds an umbrella, while a fourth man in orange with a bare shaved head holds the other umbrella. On the left, a man in white ritual cloth with gold border and a rudraksha mala holds an umbrella. A blue tarpaulin covers a straw-bundle shelter to the right, and a barbed-wire fence and wooden poles lie at the edge of the path.

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