Over the cot is spread a “chaddar” – a piece of green cloth edged with gold embroidery – onto which the spectators have scattered hundreds of rupees as a gift to the young men who are dancing. Women watch from the rooftops of neighbouring houses as, with each passing moment, the crowd grows. Others – mostly men and one transgender person – join in, dancing passionately to the beats of these sticks. Next to a wooden cot, seven or eight young men are dancing in a circle, holding sticks that they occasionally beat together. Inside the courtyard of a house in the village of Ram Thaman, near Lahore in Pakistan, an audience has gathered.
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