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A group photo in a plain room with cinderblock walls beside a golden shrine. A large gold-painted statue of a seated figure in a red turban, saffron-brown dhoti and rudraksha-style beaded necklaces raises one hand in blessing, set before a mountain landscape backdrop. Golden lion-shaped pedestals flank it. In front, a small framed image is garlanded, and a brass tray of lit oil lamps sits on a green cloth with pink lotus flowers. Eight adults and children stand or kneel around the shrine, including women in saris and salwar, a young girl in a mask, a seated man in a grey hoodie, a small boy with palms joined, and an elderly man in a blue jacket leaning on a cane. Nothing in the image is readable enough to quote.