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Outdoor scene at a temporary pink-and-red canopied shrine with a gold-trimmed curtain at its entrance. A bare-chested seated sadhu in orange cloth gestures from inside the shrine. In the foreground, a man with long matted dreadlocks and a rust-red turban and orange shawl stands with his back to the camera, beside a bald man with orange tilak and a rudraksha mala. Another man in white dhoti and gold ceremonial necklace stands at right, and a cameraman in white dhoti holds a video camera near the shrine steps. A large red umbrella with beaded fringe shelters the group, and a crowd of onlookers gathers at left. Four to five visible people on the shrine scene.

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