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Outdoors on a bare reddish-brown dirt ground in front of dense green bamboo and leafy trees, a group of men in matching red shirts and yellow dhoti-style trousers perform a stick or percussion dance. Several dancers hold small round hand drums or sticks and face one another in mid-motion. Behind them stand a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a saffron-yellow sash and a bearded man in white, watching. A uniformed security guard in dark olive stands at the right edge.

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