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A dense crowd of women and girls fills a large tent hall, packed shoulder to shoulder. Most wear colourful saris and salwar kameez in pink, magenta, orange, yellow, green and red, many with white or red tilak marks on their foreheads and some with glasses. A woman in the foreground holds a mobile phone, and a woman in a red and white sari with a white tilak is prominent at lower left. Pale pink walls and a stage with lights and banners sit in the background. No specific ritual is clearly visible.

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