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Several women sit on the floor of an orange-and-white painted hall during a puja. In the foreground, a woman in a white sari with a gold border and a yellow shawl sits with palms together, a vermilion dot on her forehead and thin-framed glasses. Beside her, a girl in a brown top and pink trousers holds her hands in anjali. Behind them, another woman in white with an orange shawl sits with hands folded. Brass lamps, a kalasha-style vessel, a shell, flower petals, a plastic container and a coconut sit on orange cloths before them.

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