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Night photograph of a fireworks display at an outdoor ritual ground, with two tall columns of bright sparks and smoke rising on either side of a group of about a dozen white-clad people standing in a line. Several men wear white dhotis and white shirts, one in the centre-right wears a yellow shawl over white, and another wears an orange-red cloth. A white wooden table stands at the right edge. Silhouetted spectators in the foreground watch from the dark. Named events are not visible in the image itself.

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