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Night photograph of a large outdoor crowd at a Karthikai Deepam gathering, with people standing and seated on paved ground under dark sky. In the foreground, a woman in a white sari with a gold border sits on a woven mat, and women in saris and salwar-style dress sit on plastic chairs at right. Men in white dhotis and shirts, one in a green shirt and yellow checked lungi, one in a blue cap, stand in the left rows, and a young man in a white dhoti with gold border stands centre-left. A bright illuminated circular light decoration with a lamp motif is visible behind palm trees at top left. No identifiable a person candidate is clearly visible.