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A photograph of a Durga puja set-up at a temple-style shrine with a red floor and golden drapery. A gilded Durga murti with many arms and a gilded Ganesha figure sit on the left, with a second gilded goddess figure on the right, all garlanded with yellow and red flowers. A priest in white dhoti with gold border and bare upper body, sprinkled with white ash marks, holds a brass bowl and cup in an offering action beside the altar. A bare-backed man with a tied hair knot stands at the back of the shrine. Centre front is a large framed photograph of a smiling man in a pink-and-red turban and pink robe, garlanded with yellow, white and red flowers, seated on a golden cushion. Before it lie an orange cloth bundle, brass lamps, a kalasha-like vessel, flower trays, a coconut and oil lamps with sticks on a red cloth. The photograph is a printed picture on the altar, not a person present.