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Evening ceremony under a white tent hung with orange and multicoloured embroidered banners. On the left, a long-haired man in an orange cloth, bare-chested with an orange shawl, stands before a large garlanded golden deity murti and holds up a ceremonial staff with orange tassels. A bald man in orange kneels with palms joined in namaskar, and a man in white with an orange shawl stands near a camera on a tripod. Hundreds of seated devotees, mostly in white, fill the hall. Brass pots, lamps and offerings sit in the foreground beside a woman in a white sari, and a fan stands at the left. Background portraits and a painted banner are visible. Looks like a puja or satsang during a Guru Poornima gathering.

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