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A photograph inside a crowded shop lined with brass and copper vessels, lamps and small metal items on shelves, with a framed picture on the upper wall. A bare-shouldered man with long dark hair wears an orange wrap over his shoulders and stands at left, facing right, with his back partly turned. Beside him a man in a white kurta and an orange shawl, with a camera slung on his chest, looks toward the shelves. A man in white kurta stands in the centre with a rudraksha-style chain at his neck, another in white clothes reads from a open booklet, and a seated man in a cream vest and white shirt sits near the right foreground beside brass wares. Total of five people visible.

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