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A photograph taken indoors in a plain whitewashed room with bare concrete walls and a red metal grille behind the crowd. Several men in white kurta and dhoti stand and kneel closely around a wooden palanquin-like frame or wooden bed on the right edge, which appears to be the object being moved. A man in the foreground, facing away, wears a saffron-orange shawl over white clothes and a gold bracelet, and his arm reaches toward the wooden structure. Another man in white kneels at left, bending forward. Several women in saris stand in the background near the grille. A man in the upper right raises an arm. The scene suggests a nighttime temple ritual with devotees carrying or shifting a sacred object.
Photo 27 of 111 from 19 April 2007

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