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Photograph of a temple corridor with blue and yellow pillars and orange tiled roof. A bearded man with a long black hair turban adorned with pink flower garland and a red-orange cloth stands centre, wearing a lei-like garland of white and red flowers over dark attire, smiling while surrounded by bare-chested men in white dhotis with rudraksha malas and sandalwood marks. A man on the right with a dark turban, bare chest and white-and-brown sash holds a rudraksha mala. A middle-aged man in a blue striped shirt and a woman in red stand in the background. Ritual temple attendance setting, possibly a Kerala temple procession.

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