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A homa fire ritual in a room with yellow-ochre walls. A square yellow-painted brick fire pit with white decorative lines holds a tall flame and smoke. Several bare-chested men in white dhotis and cream or off-white turbans sit around it; the man on the right, wearing glasses and a turban, holds a long metal ladle over the fire with one hand and touches his chest with the other, and wears layered rudraksha-style malas. A man on the left, also in a light turban, sits behind the fire pit, and an older bald man in a light turban smiles at the right edge. A younger man stands behind the pit holding a small brass bowl. In front of the pit lie a silver tray with a domed lid, red apples, mangoes, oranges and bananas, and a small brass lamp on the right. Shelves stand in the background.

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