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A photograph of a home shrine on a white-topped altar with a small pale stone or marble statue of a standing figure, shown bare-chested with a short loincloth and raised hand, placed among gold-toned metal figurines of a deity and a ganesha-like figure in the foreground. A bronze four-armed deity murti stands at left beside a copper pot, with a string of small coloured fairy lights and a pair of small oil lamps glowing on the wooden floor behind. The scene reads as a puja setting; no people are visible.

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