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Photograph of a nighttime aarti offering. In the foreground a woman in a purple and pink patterned sari and gold bangles holds a brass plate with a lit oil lamp, a halved coconut, bananas and flowers toward a larger brass tray with ripe bananas and a burning lamp. Behind her a man in an orange-red shawl and white beard stands near a black metal vessel, and other people with bags and clothing are partly visible at the edges.

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