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Indoor hall with a large crowd of seated and standing devotees, mostly bare-chested young men and boys in orange and saffron lungis and shorts, with women in white saris on the left. In the centre, a performer is upside down with his head near the top of a tall wooden pole, supported by the pole and a blue mat below. Spectators in orange and red cloths watch from a circle around the pole. Gold-coloured ornaments and framed deity images line the walls, with a projector screen and white ceiling fans overhead. Several people sit on coloured striped mats along the left side. A visible crowd of roughly one hundred people is present.

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