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Wide photograph of a large outdoor pandal with a pink-and-white canopy and a red carpet covering the floor, filled with a dense audience seated on red and white plastic chairs. Many attendees wear white dhoti-kurta or shirt-and-trousers; a man in front center wears an orange turban, and others wear orange, saffron and pink shawls or garlands and orange lanyards. A woman in an orange sari sits near the left, and a young woman in a light blue kurta sits at far left. Metal barricades and more people stand in the background beneath stage lights, banana plants and a red-and-white tent. No individual is identifiable as a person in this crowd view.