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Outdoors on bare reddish earth, a woman in saffron-orange sannyasi-style clothing with a long orange wrap and a beaded mala necklace bends forward and digs with a metal shovel, kicking up dust. Beside her, a man in a white shirt and a man in a grey t-shirt also shovel soil into a pink bucket and a heap of loose earth. On the left, a figure in white dhoti stands with a wooden stick, and on the right a woman in red sari watches. Trees are behind them. Their clothes and the pink bucket stand out against the brown ground.

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