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A photograph of an outdoor ceremony under a thatched pandal decorated with purple and white bunting, marigold-style garlands and banana leaves. In the foreground, a woman in an orange shawl over white clothing, with a long braid, bends forward offering a green leaf to a seated man in white robes with an orange shawl and a mala necklace. Before him stand brass-coloured plates of banana slices on green leaves. Behind them, an orange-turbaned man in white sits on a red cloth, a man photographs with a camera, and other men and women in white and orange stand under the pandal, with steel vessels at the right edge. A banner in Malayalam script hangs at the top right, and a red-cushioned carved chair is visible. The scene looks like a ritual offering or prasad distribution.

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