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A photograph of a small white-walled hall with a colourful striped mat on the floor. A woman seated in front wears a bright orange sleeveless top with an orange shawl over her shoulders and her hair in a low braid, her back to the camera. Facing her, a group of men in white shirts and white dhotis stand in a semicircle; one in the centre gestures with his right hand while another in the middle with a rudraksha-style mala has his hands pressed together in namaste. An older man in a cream shirt also presses his palms together. The men's appearance is ordinary white ritual and everyday clothing; no candidate for a person is visibly identifiable from appearance, so no identification is made. Fruits sit on a plate at the right edge.

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