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Outdoor photo under a pale blue sky at a festive gathering. A tall white flagpole rises at centre-right with a small saffron-orange flag at its top. In the lower left, a smiling man wears an orange turban, an orange shawl and a beaded necklace, with long dark hair. Behind him, colourful ceremonial umbrellas with blue, green and orange panels, tasselled fringes and a bird emblem shelter a crowd. A man in white with glasses stands at the far left edge, and several more people in the crowd are partly visible at the bottom, including one with a bare torso and one in an orange garment. Trees appear at the right edge.

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