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Photograph of a marriage ceremony in a bare brick-walled room with a concrete floor scattered with flower petals. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands bent forward with his hands on the head of a man kneeling prostrate in a white shirt and white dhoti, a flower garland on his neck. A woman in a red-maroon sari with her head covered bows low beside them. Behind them stands a man in a white shirt and white dhoti with a flower garland, and a man in white with a rudraksha mala. A bride in an orange sari with a flower garland smiles beside a groom in a cream shirt with a white and red garland. A striped-shirt bystander and a colourful flag hang at the top left. a person appearance cannot be verified, so no probable identification is made.

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