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A night-time photograph of a puja at an outdoor shrine. A shaved-headed man in saffron-orange robes with a white vertical tilak and a long beaded necklace sits on an orange-covered platform, while a second shaved-headed man in orange robes leans in and touches a brass vessel. A woman in a white sari with a long braid sits in the foreground, and a young man in white on the left holds his hands in anjali. Behind them stands a deity murti draped in blue silk and garlanded with red, orange and yellow flower malas, flanked by colourful painted pillars. The platform holds a brass kalasha, a silver plate with coconuts, bananas, fruit, flowers and a small ornate box, consistent with a puja or abhishekam. No one is identified by face; the seated man's appearance is not sufficiently distinctive to confirm his identity.

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