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A night photograph of a muddy field where several men in orange and saffron robes are engaged in a crouched, energetic contact game. In the foreground a bearded man with long tied-back hair and a dark t-shirt and red waist sash leans forward facing two saffron-clad men with shaved heads. Behind them, standing figures watch, including a man in a lavender shirt and white dhoti, a shaved-headed man in an orange t-shirt with a graphic, and monks in saffron robes with hands raised in namaskar. Floodlights glow above a brick wall in the background. No candidate for a person is clearly identifiable from appearance.

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