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Night-time photograph at a riverside ritual. A figure with long dark hair and a bare upper body wearing an orange cloth and gold ornaments in the foreground lifts a silver lamp with a large flame, its wick held aloft. Behind him, devotees in orange shawls and white clothing stand close together, one in orange holding a rudraksha-style strand. Plastic water containers sit on the left. A man in white with a dark waist pouch holds a silver aarti lamp in the background, and a few people kneel near the water. The scene suggests an aarti or fire offering at the river's edge.

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