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A bald man with a bare upper torso wearing a saffron-orange dhoti and a gold beaded necklace raises a lit oil lamp high in his right hand during an aarti in a red-walled hall with green floor carpet. Several people in white ritual cloth stand and sit behind him, a row of seated devotees in red and white watches from the right, and brass lamps sit on the floor at lower left. Two large cloth banners with printed text hang on the wall, and striped yellow and red pillars frame the room. A man in a white dhoti stands at a table with microphones near the back. Sign text is partly legible.

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