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A woman in a maroon blouse and red-gold saree bends forward to wave a lit oil lamp before the horned head of a black-and-white cow, while holding a brass bell in her other hand. Behind her, a woman in a dark headscarf stands near a golden-domed shrine, and another woman in a cream shawl stands with hands folded in namaskar beside a second cow under a thatched shelter. Straw covers the ground. This appears to be a cow worship ritual (go puja) during Pongal and Makar Sankranti celebrations.

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