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Outdoor photo of a crowd gathered in a dusty courtyard beside a red-painted compound wall with red flags on top. A multicoloured canopy umbrella with blue, yellow and green panels and tasselled edges stands at centre over a blue tarp, with a man in white shirt and an orange shawl bending over it. Around them, people in white dhotis and shirts and women in yellow, orange and red saris stand close together. On the right, a woman in a rust-red sari with a dark rudraksha mala and a tilak on her forehead stands apart and looks toward the group. Several white-clad people sit or stand in the background near a chair. Visible physical people number roughly 20 to 25.

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