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Night photograph of a Navaratri celebration in an outdoor courtyard. Many people in orange and saffron robes sit on mats facing a lit ritual area at centre, where a standing figure in orange holds an object and others kneel near floral offerings. In the foreground a seated figure in a large orange shawl faces the group. A building on the right is decorated with strings of warm fairy lights, and a lamp-lit stepped platform lies to the right. Several devotees with long hair and garlands sit in rows, and a small crowd watches from the left in the background.

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