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A photograph of a ritual puja on a covered veranda with brick and stone walls. Three bare-chested men sit cross-legged on a red mat, wearing white dhotis, orange shawls and beaded necklaces; two have tilak markings. Before them are brass plates and bowls of marigold and red flowers, bananas, and small brass lamps and cups. In the right foreground, a man in a yellow shawl and white garment holds a fan-like object above the offerings. A woman in a white sari walks in the courtyard beyond, and red multi-storey buildings stand behind.

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