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A photograph of a home shrine set against sheer white curtains with patterned leaf motifs. A large life-size cutout print shows a smiling bearded man in a plaid madras-check head wrap, orange-brown robes and a garland of white roses with gold beads, raising one hand in blessing. Before it stands a black stone shivalinga wrapped with a blue cloth and a red bindu, with bananas on banana leaves, a brass oil lamp, a small gold deity murti in red and gold clothing, and a gold ornamented figure in a blue shawl. Fairy lights are wound around the cutout and a brass bowl of rudraksha seeds sits at the left edge.

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