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Outdoor sack race on a dusty ground at an ashram festival. Six young women in white or light blouses and sarees hop forward inside burlap sacks printed with pink and green motifs, lined up on white painted lanes. Behind them a crowd of men and boys in white dhotis and shirts watches from the sides, and a blue metal scaffold frame and purple stage backdrop rise in the background. Some onlookers stand on the scaffold. The scene is a games event during the Jayanti Brahmotsavam celebrations, with no clearly identifiable a person present in the frame.

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