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Photograph inside a covered hall with a corrugated roof and red steel trusses, showing women at a Pongal celebration. In the foreground a young woman in a white sari with a brown blouse and a rudraksha mala holds a brass plate on which a banana leaf carries vadas, rice, sweet and savoury dishes. Beside her an older woman in a teal-blue sari with a gold necklace and bangles bends to adjust the leaf. Behind them rows of women in orange and red saris wear rudraksha malas and raise sticks, standing on striped mats near kolam designs drawn in white powder on the floor. No a person candidate is visible.

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