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A man in a white kurta with a red-and-gold patterned shawl over his shoulders and a white plastic apron tied over his clothes stands outdoors at a temple festival stall, squeezing or pouring something from a small brass cup into a large steel pot of amber liquid with a steel lid set on gravel. A steel bucket filled with clear plastic cups of the same amber drink sits in front of him, and a sugarcane stalk leans against the pot. Behind him, an orange-draped folding table holds stacks of cups and packets, with parked white cars and palm trees beyond.