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A photograph taken at night inside a large open-sided hall with a dark ceiling of steel trusses. A crowd of about twenty people stands facing the same direction. On the left, a man in white dhoti and orange sash stands near a golden carved wall and a small wooden staircase. Beside him a man in white shirt wears a rosette badge, and an older man in white dhoti and shawl stands nearby. In the centre, a woman in a teal sari and a girl in yellow stand among others; in the foreground a man in a checked shirt and a man in a striped green shirt with orange trousers face away from the camera. On a white cloth on the floor are a silver cup, a small silver lamp stand and a bowl.

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