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Outdoor sandy ground lined with tall coconut palms during a traditional Indian game session. A crouching young man in white dhoti and shirt bends low in the foreground while others in white clothes and red or orange headbands stand and watch. Several men in white stand around the sandy field, and a group of drummers sits at right beside large drums. A tall pole with a flag rises behind the palms, and a rope or line runs across the field. Onlookers in white and blue shirts gather around the edges.

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