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Night gathering in an open courtyard of a two-storey white building with a blue corrugated roof at right. Large crowd of saffron- and orange-robed sadhus and devotees sits on a bare concrete floor, many men with grey beards, some in pink or yellow turbans, others with bare heads. A man in a blue shirt and dark trousers stands at centre facing the crowd, and an orange-clad figure walks through at right. Several seated people look at mobile phones. Potted plants and small lights decorate the balcony railings above.

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