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A temple puja in progress before a gilded shrine with an orange cloth backdrop. A deity murti dressed in orange silk and draped with red and pink flower garlands and layered gold ornaments sits at the centre, with a brass kalasha of fruit and a metal bowl of flowers before it. Two men in white dhotis sit on a red cloth. The man on the left faces away, bare-backed, with a white dhoti edged in gold, and holds a phone. The man in the centre wears a white dhoti and a sacred thread, has eyeglasses, and reads from a paper at a microphone stand. Trays of fruit, sweets, nuts, rose petals and offerings surround them, and a brass oil lamp stands at the right beside a dark wooden throne.

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