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Four dancers perform on a red stage before a black backdrop in a classical Indian dance sequence. Two men in white dhoti-style trousers and yellow-orange and blue silk sashes, with gold ankle bells, stand alongside two women in orange-gold and blue saris with hair adorned with white flowers. Their arms are raised in expressive poses. Two framed portraits hang above: on the left, a man in a white garment with a rudraksha mala and a microphone in hand; on the right, a man in saffron-orange robes with a large rudraksha mala and long hair. The scene reads as a cultural programme. No one is identified by face.

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