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A group of devotees sits on mats under an open-sided shelter with red pillars, performing a puja with brass plates, small oil lamps and offerings laid out before them. A bare-chested man in white dhoti with a gold border, brass-coloured rudraksha mala and gold chain, hands pressed in anjali, sits at left. Other men in white dhotis, some bare-chested with malas, and women in pink and teal salwar kurtas sit at the front, several wearing blue surgical masks. A woman in a yellow top sits at lower right. Nobody in the scene shows distinctive a person cues, so no candidate is identified. Dry earth, a tree and laundry lie beyond the shelter.

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