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A group of children and a woman sit on floor cushions and a red patterned rug inside a temple shrine room with yellow walls. A girl in a white t-shirt holds an open book on a wooden book stand, while others listen. Behind them, dark deity murti are adorned with marigold and white flower garlands, and a gold crown sits atop the central figure. A woman in white with a red tilak sits at left holding a toddler in yellow. A boy in a blue and white football jersey sits at right. Brass lamps and a feathered fan stand near the altar.

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