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Night photograph of a fire-torch procession at a Brahmotsav celebration. A large fan-shaped bamboo frame blazes with flames behind a man in white ritual clothes, seen from behind, who walks toward the frame. Another person in a long cream garment and a figure in red and gold stand near the fire. Several onlookers in white garments stand at the right edge in the dark. Smoke drifts above the flames, and the setting is a dirt ground with a street lamp and a wall at left.

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