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Outdoor ritual at a construction-style site beside a stone wall and corrugated shed. A tall red-and-white striped wooden pole stands upright in the centre, with a white cloth bundle tied near its top. To the right, a man in saffron robes with long dark hair and a rudraksha mala stands beneath a multicoloured fringed parasol, while a woman in a rust-orange sari and long dark hair holds the parasol's handle. Beside them a bearded man in rust-orange robes and a long mala faces the pole. On the left, several young men in saffron and orange dhotis, some bare-chested with mala beads, stand in a row. Rose petals are scattered on the ground at the pole's base beside a small stone platform. Devotees in white dhotis and orange shawls watch from behind, and a photographer with a camera stands at the far right.

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