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A photograph of an outdoor flag-hoisting moment beside a white building and brick ground. A green pole stands at left with an orange cloth being raised on a yellow rope by a man in a white dhoti and shirt with white hair, arm raised. Beside him a young man in an orange dhoti and bare-chested red-and-orange vest holds the rope and cloth. At right a man in an orange dhoti and orange shawl stands watching. At left a woman in a white sari with orange shawl photographs the scene with a camera. Palm trees, orange-flowered shrubs and a concrete wall form the background.

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