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A crowd of men in white shirts and dhotis gathers closely at night on a road, with a few onlookers including a woman in a dark patterned sari and a uniformed police officer at the right edge. In the centre, a man in a white shirt with an orange-red shawl and a yellow-and-gold sash receives printed photo booklets from a younger man in white with an orange shawl, while a bald man in white bends forward to hold a garland of yellow flowers. The printed booklets show portrait photographs and a headline-style page. Several people wear vibhuti or tilak on their foreheads.

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