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A photograph of a ritual exchange indoors before a gilded wall. On the right, a bare-chested figure with long dark dreadlocked hair, a white forehead mark and a saffron-and-gold wrap stands with one hand raised over the head of a man kneeling on the left. The kneeling man wears a white kurta, an orange-and-gold shawl and wooden rudraksha beads, with his palms pressed together. Behind them, a woman in white with an orange shawl and a man in white with beads stand watching. Their dress is white and orange, with rudraksha malas. The setting has a gold-patterned wall and a white air conditioner unit.

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