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Outdoor ritual at a construction site beside orange-painted walls. A long-haired, bearded man in an orange-red top and rust-coloured dhoti stands at a concrete slab, pouring something from a white plastic bag onto it while a man in an orange dhoti holds a large yellow-and-multicolour decorated umbrella overhead. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti with gold border stands at left. At right, a man in a rust-coloured dhoti with a rudraksha mala and a woman in a rust sari with dark beaded necklaces hold a metal tray of green leaves; a bowl of green leaves sits in the foreground. Clay pots lie on the slab. Several onlookers stand behind.

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