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A young man in a grey-green short-sleeved shirt and dark green lungi sits cross-legged on the floor of a plain room, bent over a flat sheet of paper with a blue-ink floral scroll design. He holds a small tool or pen against the paper with both hands. Behind him on a low wooden table stand brass figurines of deities, a steel tiffin-style container and sacks. Plastic sheets and a hammer lie on the floor.

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