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Photograph of a wedding-style ritual in an indoor hall with beige ceiling and recessed lights. A bald priest in white dhoti and shawl with red-and-gold borders, a dark mark on his scalp, carries a silver tray of red apples. A smiling young man in a yellow turban and red silk dhoti wears a long garland of white jasmine, yellow and red flowers and green leaves. Beside him a woman in pink and a man in white kurta with folded hands stand among onlookers, with stanchions along the aisle. A second priest in white with a gold-bordered shawl and white forehead markings stands behind. No one is identified as a person.

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