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Outdoor photo at a dusty ashram ground where a bare-backed person with long dark hair in orange cloth sits on a white draped table before a microphone, placing a hand on the head of a seated man in white. Standing nearby are a woman in a white sari with green blouse, a woman in an orange floral sari with flowers in her hair, a man in white, and a boy. Behind them is a long fire pit holding glowing embers and ash, with a white-railed shrine structure and a dark stone deity murti on a pedestal at right, and a standing person in white near the back. Clay pots and buckets sit on the ground. The scene suggests a firewalk ritual with a blessing.
Photo 628 of 762 from 14 February 2007

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