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fficers at the Royal New Zealand Police College celebrated the Indian festival of Diwali by dancing to the Bollywood hit “Kala Chashma”. The video went viral on the subcontinent after, “Their dance steps were spot on as most of the officers managed to pull off the desi thumkas and jhatkas.”

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