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Outdoor festive scene on a dirt ground at an ashram-like site with dry hillside, small white-topped structures and a utility pole backdrop. Participants in white and lilac clothing are splashed and doused with purple powder-colored water from red buckets and blue drums; a man in a lilac kurta at center is drenched in purple spray while others hold buckets. A hanging pot is suspended from a rope between red poles above. Many onlookers in white, including women with braids, watch from the foreground. A man in a white kurta stands at right with a bucket. The scene conveys a colour-splashing celebration with dozens of people visible.

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