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A photograph of a ritual scene indoors. In the centre, an older man with glasses and short grey hair, wearing a white shirt and a wristwatch, holds a small silver vessel in his right hand over a brass plate. At the left edge, a figure in saffron-orange robes is partly visible. Behind him, a younger man in white with a yellow shawl sits by a microphone stand, and a woman in a white sari with a yellow shawl sits beside him. A woman in a purple top with hands folded in namaskar sits in the upper background, and a brass plate of offerings rests on a red ledge. The scene suggests a puja or abhishekam in progress, with a green cloth drape behind.

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