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A photograph inside a large hall with a white fabric ceiling hung with many colourful cylindrical streamers and paper lanterns. In the centre a shirtless young man balances on top of a tall wooden pole, holding a wooden implement overhead. Beneath him a blue mat is surrounded by a seated audience of many shirtless and white-clad devotees, some clapping and some holding their hands together. A man in a dark tracksuit and a man in white dhoti stand at the left edge near the pole base. Watermarked images are not described further.

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