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Night Holi celebration at an outdoor stone-paved area. Many people are covered in yellow, green and grey powder colours and dancing under a bright light. A man on the right wears a cream kurta and white dhoti, his hair and clothes stained with colour, arm raised mid-dance. Beside him a person in a plain grey shirt is powdered grey, and a figure in a white turban on the left has yellow and red stains. Several people in orange-saffron robes stand in the background, and a woman in an orange sari with a long braid is at centre. No one can be confidently identified as a person from appearance in this image.

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