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A man with long black hair hanging down his back, wearing a red-orange dhoti and bare-chested with a red-and-gold garland, stands at the left edge with hands folded, facing a row of large golden deity murtis of Devi Durga under a white tent canopy. Several deity figures with multiple arms and ornate golden halos stand on raised platforms, flanked by colourful striped rugs, scattered flower petals and a yellow-edged square pit. Women in red and orange saris and a seated figure in white stand in the background near a banner of a world map and a portrait of a man in a red garland. Speakers hang at the top corners.

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