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Home puja altar photographed at close range. A framed portrait in the upper centre shows a smiling young man in orange robes with a long yellow-and-white flower garland and a raised hand, set against a tree-trunk background. Beside it a large painted image of Shiva with blue skin, crescent, and rudraksha ornaments is garlanded with marigold and red flower strands. On a leopard-print cloth stand a brass trident, small seated deity figurines, a kalasha-like brass vessel, offerings of white and orange flowers, a red-and-yellow drum, a plate of flatbread and a bowl of yellow curry. A person's bangled arm is visible at the left edge. No people are present except that arm, so this is a photograph of a home altar.