Close photograph of a hand tying dry grass blades bundled together over a dark wooden block in a dimly lit space. The hand, wearing a braided red and beige wrist thread, pinches stiff straw-like grass into a small torch or bundle. Behind it, slightly out of focus, a person with a white horizontal band across the forehead, bare-shouldered and dressed in reddish cloth, watches the work. - Nithyanandapedia

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Close photograph of a hand tying dry grass blades bundled together over a dark wooden block in a dimly lit space. The hand, wearing a braided red and beige wrist thread, pinches stiff straw-like grass into a small torch or bundle. Behind it, slightly out of focus, a person with a white horizontal band across the forehead, bare-shouldered and dressed in reddish cloth, watches the work.

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