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Two men work on the floor of a dusty workshop beside an orange-painted wall and a corrugated metal panel. The man on the left, in a white vest and blue checked lungi, smooths a large grey clay or plaster block with his hands. The man on the right, in a blue checked shirt and lungi, sits crouched beside a dark bowl and a flat board with a low pot of mixed material. Buckets, cement blocks, cloth scraps and wooden planks lie around the floor. No a person candidate is visible.

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