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Night-time ritual at an open-air ashram courtyard with red-and-white striped walls and banana plants. In the centre, a bare-backed man with curly reddish-brown hair wears a white dhoti with gold borders and holds up a white plate of offerings. Behind him, a man in an orange-and-saffron dhoti and gold necklaces pours liquid from a vessel. A cameraman in a white dhoti with gold border films with a handheld camera on a tripod. Brass vessels, a striped mat and oil lamps lie in the foreground, with seated devotees at the bottom edge. A speaker stands on a stand in the background.

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