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Outdoor ritual photo under a blue velvet canopy decorated with yellow and orange marigold garlands, with a pink wall behind. A masked man in a white head cloth and white dhoti on the left touches the forehead of a man with long dreadlocked hair piled high, who wears a rudraksha mala and a silver pendant. A third man with short grey hair, a tilak on his forehead, a rudraksha mala and white dhoti stands in the middle, while a bare-chested man at right holds a brass plate of red rose petals. A brass plate is also visible at left. Several people are present in sacred Hindu temple-style dress for a ritual.

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