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A photograph of a seated row of boys and young people performing a puja on a white marble floor. In the foreground a boy in a mustard-yellow striped shirt holds a small oil lamp toward a brass plate, and the boy beside him, in a white shirt, also holds a lit lamp. Brass plates with offerings, small brass cups, a kalasha-style vessel and an orange cloth mat are arranged in front of them, with a plastic water bottle and a container nearby. Several lit oil lamps flicker along the row, and more children in the background sit at their own puja settings. No a person figure is visible in the scene.

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