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A photograph in an open, pillared hall beside a railed walkway above a shallow pool with orange koi fish. In the foreground a man in a white dhoti with a yellow border and a long beaded mala stands at the rail, facing left. Beside him a man in a blue t-shirt leans on the rail, and further along a man in white shirt and a man in orange dhoti look down at the water. A man in red kurta stands farther right near steel chafing dishes on a long table. A person at far left holds a camera. Several other people stand in the background among pillars.

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