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Outdoor ritual on bare earth at dusk beside an unfinished brick structure and a blue shipping container. A woman in an orange sari with a long red-beaded necklace and gold-bordered sari raises her hands in a blessing gesture. Nearby, a line of children and young women in red and orange clothing stand or sit, several watching her. Two men in white dhotis stand with palms joined; one holds a clay pot near a cylindrical metal vessel. At right, a woman in a multicoloured silk sari with bangles joins her palms in namaskar beside a white-draped table holding a silver bowl, a brass deity murti, a small lamp and a kalasha-like pot. Terracotta pots lie on the ground in the foreground. People visible: about fifteen.

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