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A photograph of a temple puja inside a tented shrine. In the foreground, a man with long, loose black hair and a red-maroon cloth wrapped at his waist, wearing a red garland and gold bangles, extends his arm and sprinkles petals or water over the deities. Behind him, another attendant in red holds a brass tray. The central deity is a golden Ganesha with a pink trunk, adorned with marigold garlands. Beside it, a gold-framed Durga murti in a glittering arch is garlanded and decorated with flowers, and a larger Durga figure stands at the right with a trident and an ornate golden crown. Smoke rises near a brass lamp, and a small golden framed shrine with flowers sits at the lower right. Above the scene, a banner shows a smiling man in a garland and a world map with numbers. A portion of the banner is printed with the caption text, which is not fully legible. A tent canopy covers the scene.

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