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A dense outdoor crowd of men at a festival, under colourful striped and fringed canopies with umbrellas printed with a dove-like emblem and the word Nithyanandapeetham. Near the center, a bald man wears a saffron-orange shawl over his head and shoulders, and beside him a man in an orange turban and orange clothing stands among the throng. Men around them wear white dhotis and shirts, one in a pink-and-white checked cloth, another in a blue-checked shawl, and a bare-chested man wears a rudraksha mala. Many hands are raised, and some people hold palm-frond sticks.

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