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Evening outdoor ritual in Phuket. A bearded man with bare chest and a red-and-white mala wears an orange-yellow dhoti and pink shawl, holding a silver multi-branched lamp with lit flames toward a seated man with a flower-wreath crown in yellow and green, wearing a leopard-print garment and red beaded necklaces. Other white-clad men stand behind with hands in anjali, one holding a phone. A tripod and a fan are visible, with the seated man's hands raised over the flame in an aarti gesture.

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