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A photograph of a night-time ritual at an outdoor stage lit by strings of warm fairy lights. A shaved-headed man in an orange saffron robe and orange head covering, with a white tilak on his forehead and a gold bangle on his wrist, leans forward and holds a large round brass plate toward a decorated deity murti in the right foreground. Brass lamps with flowers and pink blossoms sit on a tray beside him, and a yellow and green decorated cloth hangs on the left. A man in a yellow shirt and glasses stands behind him, and the backs of two heads are partly visible in the lower foreground. The scene appears to be a devotional aarti or puja.

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