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Indoor night photograph of a final funeral ceremony in a plain room with pink-and-cream walls, a ceiling fan, barred windows and a framed picture on the wall. A draped body lies under a red and gold cloth on a wooden bier at right. Seated ash-clad sannyasis in saffron-orange robes perform rites beside small oil lamps and a brass vessel, and a man in saffron wears an orange turban at left holding a lit lamp. Devotees in white and saffron sit around the bier, and a cameraman in white operates a tripod-mounted video camera at right. Several bamboo poles with cloth banners stand upright.

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