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Outdoor photograph of a fire ritual (homa or yagna) in a palm-grove compound. A long rectangular fire pit smoulders at centre, and a white-robed priest in white dhoti and shirt stirs it with a long pole. Around him a large crowd of devotees in white and coloured saris and kurtas stands behind a rope barrier. On the left a drummer in white clothes with a yellow sash plays a hand drum. In the foreground, a woman with long dark hair in an orange top faces away from the camera toward the ritual. Corrugated-roof sheds and coconut palms frame the scene.

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