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An outdoor gathering on open grassland under two dark cloth canopies strung with multicoloured pennants on wooden poles. Many people in white shirts, pale lungis, and colourful saris stand and sit on blue plastic chairs, some facing a wooden stand at the left. A small brown and a central figure in white stand among the crowd. A hill and a distant range stand behind under a pale sky, with a clay pot on the grass in the foreground.

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