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A festive indoor hall with red drapes, hanging colourful paper lanterns and a large screen showing a bearded man in a red-and-white outfit. Several women in saris and salwar kameez carry brass trays and a small framed deity murti; one woman in a green patterned dress holds a framed image of a deity in a red shrine. Devotees sit on a red floor, some in white ritual clothes, with brass plates in front of them. Some people sit on the floor, others stand; the scene looks like a puja or deepam offering gathering. The page does not establish that the screen figure is a identifiable candidate, so no in-person a person is asserted. Roughly two dozen people are visible.

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