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Outdoor gathering of many people seated on stone steps at dusk. Most wear warm layers, knit caps, shawls and white or cream wraps. A man in the centre-right wears a flowing orange-saffron robe with long dark hair and sits among the crowd, with a person candidate by appearance cues of long swept-back hair and saffron clothing, though the face and figure are partly obscured by distance. A camera operator in a red jacket films at left. Others wear red, blue and purple clothing. A white plastic bag sits on the steps near a seated figure in pink-red shawl. Overall the crowd is dense and mixed.

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