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Night photograph of a group of young people in an open ground, pulling on ropes in a tug-of-war style game. Women in the foreground wear orange and saffron salwar kameez and saris, a woman in green kurta with a yellow dupatta, and a woman in a black-and-floral top with a patterned dupatta. Behind them young men in orange and yellow shirts watch, one bare-chested man on the far left wears a necklace. A red-brick building and dark trees form the background, with a wooden pole standing in the middle. The scene appears to be a festive gathering in the evening.

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