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A long indoor hall with white draped ceiling and colourful paper pennants hangs above a row of offering tables covered in orange cloth. Women and girls in white saris kneel in a line, tending brass oil lamps, plates and kalasha-style vessels set before blue-labelled tables. Standing near the framed portraits along the right wall, a figure in an orange robe with a flower garland is receiving a pooja, while another man in white stands beside him. Framed portraits of saffron-robed figures in orange line the right wall, with blue placards reading Embalam and Varanasi beneath them. A stage with a blue cloth and a screen are visible at the back of the hall.

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