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A photograph of a fire-walking event at an outdoor ground. A woman in a white sari with a yellow border stands in the middle of a long pit of glowing grey embers, hands pressed together in namaskar. Around the pit, many men and women in white dhotis and kurtas stand barefoot, several wearing rudraksha malas and name badges, some clapping and folding their hands in reverence. A man in a white dhoti with a rudraksha mala is at the right edge, and a man holds a long walking stick. The pit's sides are packed earth and the ground is strewn with dry straw.

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