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A photograph of a large indoor hall with pale green walls and a tiled floor during a women's gathering in Tamil Nadu. In the foreground, a group of women in colourful saris sits on a striped blue and pink mat, including a woman in a blue salwar and a woman in a white sari with orange border holding a microphone while speaking. A young woman in a yellow floral dress with a long braid holds a microphone and smiles. To the right, an older man with white hair wears white clothes and sits on a white plastic chair. Standing women in white saris and white clothing stand along the back, and more seated listeners fill the hall, with several men in white in the background.

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