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Inside a small room with turquoise walls, a priest in the right foreground, shown from the side with a shaved head and a reddish-brown shawl, holds a brass vessel and a lit wick over a shrine. On the shrine, a gilded arched backdrop frames a deity murti with many arms, garlanded with yellow, purple and red flowers, and a small oil lamp burns on a dark wooden platform draped in leopard-print cloth. Behind it stands a life-size cutout portrait of a smiling figure with a tall reddish-pink turban decorated with flowers, wearing an orange garland, rudraksha beads and a red-and-pink robe, next to an ornate gold-and-leopard-print chair. A printed sign on the wall reads KAILASA KORATTUR, and a framed picture and a poster of small figures hang at the right beside a blue shelf of books.