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A photograph taken inside a covered, thatch-roofed shelter with a fluorescent tube light and a white painted wall. A large grey stone statue of a standing deity, holding a staff, dominates the centre, with a banner behind it reading in part about daily worship of the Divine Mother. Several people in orange and saffron robes stand in a close group facing the statue. A man on the right with long dark swept-back hair wears an orange robe and a rudraksha mala. Beside him a bearded man in orange wears spectacles, a gold ceremonial necklace and a red tilak. Other people in saffron, peach and red clothing stand with their backs to the camera, and a bald man in orange stands at the left edge. Marigold garlands hang at the right edge.

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