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Night photograph of an outdoor ritual at a person ashram. A bare-chested young man in an orange turban and orange dhoti, with a rudraksha mala around his neck, holds an object near a flame while looking up. Behind him stands a bearded man in an orange-brown robe, with another man and several women in red and orange robes behind them, one with hands in anjali. A decorated umbrella-like canopy with red, white, yellow and blue fringe stands on a pole at left, and a flame rises at upper right beside colourful string lights. The scene suggests an aarti or fire ritual with the flame as its focus.

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