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A photograph inside a canopied temple hall at a Navaratri Durga worship. In the foreground at left, a man with long loose black hair and a red-orange dhoti and shawl, with a red and white garland, stands with hands folded in a devotional posture, facing the shrine. Behind him several people in orange, saffron and white clothing stand in the hall. In the centre, a yellow square fire pit or havan kund sits on the floor, scattered with flower petals. At the back, large golden and white deity murtis of Durga with multiple arms and ornate crowns stand on a raised shrine with a staircase, flanked by a lion or tiger figure and a white ornate palanquin-like platform. The floor is covered with colourful striped cloths in purple, pink, green and yellow. A world map poster with a red-turbaned figure hangs on the wall at upper left.

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