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A large hall with pink walls and orange-yellow hanging tassel banners hosts a seated crowd of many devotees, mostly in white clothes with some in orange and pink saris. Five men in white with yellow sashes raise lit oil lamps overhead toward the front, where a clock hangs on the back wall and framed deity pictures line the stage. Children sit in the foreground in colourful clothes. The scene looks like a satsang or arati ceremony with raised lamps. No person at the front can be confidently identified as a person from appearance.

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