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Outdoor photograph of a crowded riverside ghat in Varanasi with red-and-white striped steps. Stacked logs fill the upper right, and a green municipal bin stands on the steps. A man in an orange kurta and grey trousers, carrying a cloth bag, walks down the steps near a woman in a pink top and patterned trousers. Nearby, a woman in a green jacket and a woman in a white sari stand among other visitors and locals, and a man in a white T-shirt leans on a blue railing in the foreground. A white dog stands atop the logs. Several people sit or stand in the background.

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