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Crowded festive tent at night with white and gold draping overhead and foil balloons, one reading HAPPY, floating at left. A woman with a long dark braid and a white-and-yellow flower garland stands with her back to the camera, reaching toward a man in a white shirt and glasses who holds a small white paper. Nearby men in white shirts and dhotis and a young man in a yellow-green kurta stand among devotees. Bowls of green-yellow fruit and floral offerings sit in the foreground, with a standing fan and string lights. Behind them, rows of spectators in red and white fill the tent.

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