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A whitewashed building entrance decorated for an inauguration, with two banana stalks tied on either side of the doorway and garlands of white jasmine and red flowers hanging from them. A figure in an orange sleeveless robe with hair in a low bun stands on the brick step, touching a banana stalk, while an older man in a white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha-style mala looks on from the right. Inside the dark doorway is an open wooden door. Trees and red bricks lie beyond the building.

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