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A large group of devotees sit in rows on red stone ghat steps beside a river at dusk, many wearing white ritual clothes with orange-red shawls and rudraksha-style beaded necklaces. Small brass kalashas or lamps and dark stone shivalinga-like pedestals sit on each step in front of them. Several men are bare-chested, while women wear white salwar or sarees with orange shawls. Some hold their hands in anjali, others sit in meditation. Red and orange flags stand at the left edge. No single leader is clearly identifiable among the seated participants; the scene reads as a group puja or meditation session at a riverside ghat.

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