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Outdoor sports day on a dirt field in front of a long white corrugated-roof building. Two teams of men in mixed shirts and lungis hold ropes in a tug-of-war, leaning back across white marking lines. A man in white clothes stands centrally at the lines as referee. Strings of pink, purple and blue pennant flags cross overhead. Behind them, a seated crowd of devotees, several in orange and saffron robes, faces a small canopy with a framed portrait banner reading Nithyananda Paramashivam. Palm trees and a flagpole are at the right.