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A photograph of a fire-walking ritual at an outdoor ground. A woman in a white dress with a white shawl and a beaded necklace walks barefoot across a shallow pit filled with glowing embers and ash, its edges marked with white dots. Along the sides, a crowd of devotees in white clothes stands watching; several men wear white dhotis and shirts, a few wear red or orange shawls, and one man in a white shirt and white trousers wears a long rudraksha mala and an ID lanyard. Wooden poles with rope bindings form a barrier at the right, and a drum is visible at the far right. Roughly a dozen people are visible.

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