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Photograph inside an orange-and-yellow canvas tent with orange-painted poles. A young male dancer in red and purple dhoti-style trousers, bare-chested with beaded anklets and a beaded necklace, performs centre-stage on a red and blue carpet while audience members in saffron robes, white, and orange turbans sit on floor mats and bolsters. A cameraman in a red shirt films from the lower foreground, and several seated men hold printed booklets. Many sannyasis in orange robes fill the seating rows along both sides.

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