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A stage performance under a red banner with partial lettering and the numerals 2010, set against a cinderblock wall with a striped orange and white backdrop and potted plants. A standing young man, bare-chested with a white dhoti and an orange-gold waist cloth, stands with hands on hips and a sacred thread across his chest. Beside him a seated performer in a purple and gold shawl and white dhoti gestures with raised hands, while a kneeling performer in a green blouse and orange shawl faces him. Audience members sit in the dark foreground. Dramatic theatre rather than a ritual.

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