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Outdoor fire-walking ritual at dusk beside a red-roofed building with a green tin roof and palm trees. In the foreground, a man in white shirt and white dhoti with a rudraksha mala walks barefoot across a shallow pit of glowing-grey ash, hands pressed together in namaskar. Around the pit, a large crowd of devotees stands barefoot behind a wooden rail, many in white kurtas and dhotis, some with lanyards and rudraksha malas, one man in a checked shirt and a woman in white. A saffron-and-red decorated structure appears at the upper right. A small purple logo sits in the top-left corner.

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