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Interior of a large temple hall with red-and-white striped pillars, carved stone columns, and colourful paper umbrellas and banners hanging above. Many seated devotees sit on red mats in a dense audience. Foreground: a woman with long braided blonde hair, wearing an orange kurta, writes in a notebook. Beside her, a woman in a grey striped top and khaki trousers with a rudraksha mala listens. Several women in orange and saffron clothes sit with hands folded; one wears a rudraksha mala and a bindi. A woman at left in white holds a microphone and a paper. In the background, a deity murti and decorated figures stand near the hall's shrine area. No clear appearance-based candidate for a person is visible.

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