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Outdoor photograph of a devotional offering scene in front of a thatched palm-leaf wall. In the foreground, a man in white dhoti and an orange shawl with rudraksha mala presses his palms together in namaskar beside a grey metal table draped in white cloth, holding fruit (bananas, pineapple, coconut), flowers and packets. Behind him stand a woman in a cream sari with orange shawl clapping, a woman in a white sari with yellow shawl and gold bangles, and a young man in white with a yellow shawl and tilak who joins in the clapping. Several onlookers in casual shirts and dhotis crowd behind. No person clearly matches a person depiction.

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