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Photograph of a large crowd inside a white tented hall with a red carpet and string lights overhead, at what the page describes as a Kumbh Mela cultural event. Many men in white dhotis and gold-bordered white shawls, with orange and red sashes, rudraksha-style orange malas and tilak marks, dance and raise their arms energetically. A bare-chested man with an orange shawl raises a hand near the centre. Women in white and pink saris stand among them, and a man in a white-and-gold sash and white shirt raises both arms at the right edge. Wall-mounted air conditioners and orange lanterns are visible above. Partially visible people fill the frame, so the crowd is well over twenty.

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