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Large outdoor crowd of devotees seated on riverside steps at dusk, many with hands pressed in anjali or raised toward a ghat where a lit fire or lamp burns near the water. Men in shirts and women in headscarves and saris in red, purple and blue sit close together. A tall black ceremonial pole or umbrella-like structure stands at right. Behind them stone temple shrines, pink-walled ghats, Nokia and Idea billboards and forested hills fill the background.