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Outdoor photograph of a sandy ground during a youth celebration with a relay or running activity. Several young men run barefoot across the sand; the front runners wear saffron-orange tops with white dhotis, while a runner at left wears a white shirt and white trousers. A young woman in white with a bangle-wearing hand stands at right beside a child in a bright pink and colourful outfit. A crowd of onlookers in white, cream and dark clothes watches from the sides and from a raised platform at upper right, where people in white saris and shirts stand near a tall pole with yellow streamers. Palm trees and a scaffold frame sit in the background under a bright sky.

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