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Night photograph of an outdoor ritual at a tall copper pillar wrapped with rope and draped with string-lights. A man with long, swept-back dark hair wears an orange saffron robe and stands on a raised white platform beside the pillar, holding a white cloth. A gilded seated deity murti is set into a niche on the pillar. Two other men in white and saffron-and-white garments stand near the platform; one holds a white cloth outstretched toward him, and another man in a yellow shawl stands at right. Strings of coloured lights overhead frame the scene.

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