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Night photo at a riverside ghat. In the foreground, a bare-chested man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange cloth and a gold necklace, kneels at the water's edge and sets a lit flower-leaf lamp afloat. Behind him, several men in saffron robes stand on the steps, one holding a staff topped with a metal finial. A cameraman in white kurta and white dhoti, with a shoulder-mounted video camera and a boom microphone, wades into the river. Lamps float on the dark water and more devotees line the far bank under street lights. a person: the bare-chested figure with long swept-back hair, orange cloth and gold necklace is performing the lamp offering, a river puja, as a devotee.

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