A hall with a corrugated roof and a stage decorated with red and gold drapes, yellow fringe and a large framed portrait of a smiling woman in orange. On the stage a deity murti is garlanded with flowers beside a decorated altar, and framed photographs sit on a red-covered table. A woman in an orange saree sits on a white chair at the right of the stage. In front, a man in orange robes holds a lit lamp near a stand of oil lamps, while devotees in orange, white and yellow saris and a maroon top sit on mats before green leaves set with small metal cups, offering the ritual the feel of a puja.

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