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A night-time ritual photograph at an altar with a fire flame. A man in white shirt and white dhoti leans in from the left holding a lit lamp or torch toward the altar. Behind him a figure in orange-saffron robes stands holding a long staff, and another person in orange robes sits near a green-yellow draped canopy. A large painted or decorated backdrop shows a deity murti under a colourful arched frame of pink, yellow, green and blue with silver tinsel. Flowers in red and yellow garlands and trays of offerings lie on the white stone altar and the foreground table, with brass vessels and a lamp stand. The scene suggests an aarti or puja at a decorated temple shrine.

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