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Night photograph of a teal-and-red wooden cart or float at an outdoor ritual. Two men sit cross-legged on a pink-draped platform beneath a large gilded bull statue with a green canopy garlanded with yellow and orange flowers. Both wear white turbans and rudraksha malas; the man on the left wears saffron-orange cloth and glasses, while the man on the right wears a white shawl and holds a ritual implement. A brass vessel and offerings sit before them. In the foreground a woman in an orange sari with her hair in a braid faces the platform with her back to the camera. Two dark vehicles are visible at the left edge.

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