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Outdoor ceremony under a canopy decorated with banana leaves and colourful triangular bunting. An older man with white hair, wearing a blue-and-grey striped shirt and white dhoti, receives or passes a small cup or vessel to a woman in an orange top with long dark curly hair, who is seated with her back to the camera. A woman in a red and gold sari and glasses holds offerings in her hands nearby. Around them men in white shirts and a man in orange robes with a beaded necklace stand close, some with palms pressed together, while onlookers crowd behind. The setting appears to be a temporary ceremonial tent with a plastic chair in the foreground.

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