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A photograph taken through a doorway of a home interior. A shaved-headed man in a brown-maroon dhoti and matching shawl with a rudraksha mala stands inside a tiled room holding a lit oil lamp, its flame visible in front of him. In the foreground, a woman with hair tied in a bun, seen from behind, wears a red sleeveless blouse and a long white jasmine garland over her shoulders. Strings of dried leaves hang across the top of the doorway.

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