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Group photo inside a plain room with cinder-block walls beside a gold-coloured seated statue wearing a red-orange turban and rudraksha-style beads, holding a trident, flanked by gold lion-shaped sculptures and a blue-draped altar. A framed portrait with a garland sits on a green-covered table beside a brass plate of oil lamps and pink flowers. Several adults and children stand or sit around it: a woman in a yellow patterned top at left, a woman in a white sari with gold border beside a girl in a white face mask, a seated man in a grey top and jeans, and an elderly man in a blue jacket leaning on a cane at right. Another gold figure and a draped fabric sit at the right edge.

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