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Outdoor puja under a corrugated roof strung with orange pennants and decorated pillars. A bare-chested man in an orange wrap and orange turban raises a lamp with smoke rising from it, while people in white shirts and orange or red garments sit or stand with hands folded in namaskar behind a table laden with bananas, custard apples, mangoes, apples and silver vessels with flower offerings. An older white-bearded man in an orange shawl sits at the right, and a folded-hands devotee in white stands at the left.

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