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Outdoor evening photograph of a Karthigai Deepam ritual near greenery. On the left, a large bronze lamp bowl with a bright open flame rests on a blue cloth-draped table, decorated with red and white flowers. Standing behind it, a man in white dhoti and shawl with rudraksha beads and tilak, hands folded. In the centre-right, a person in red-and-gold ceremonial garments and a red headpiece with a crescent emblem, wearing layered gold necklaces, red garlands and bangles, hands joined in namaskar, stands under an ornate silver umbrella. Priests in saffron-orange cloth stand at the right edge beside a silver plate.