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A smoky outdoor scene at AadiKailaasa in Bengaluru during Diwali celebrations, with a dense haze and scattered spent firecracker debris covering the dusty ground. A crowd of roughly thirty people in white traditional clothes, many wearing saffron or orange shawls and some in yellow, walks in a loose group past a table in the foreground. Two white buildings stand behind them, one with a signboard reading Sri Anandeshwara Temple and another with a Kannada sign reading ಶ್ರೀ ಆನಂದೇಶ್ವರ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ. A woman in an orange sari stands near the left side, and a child in blue stands at right beside a white truck and palm trees. A portrait poster is affixed to a wall near the right building. No individual can be confidently identified as a person from appearance, so no candidate is marked.

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