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Outdoors on a dusty ground covered with spent firecracker debris, several people stand near a long single-storey white building with a green corrugated roof and red support posts. In the centre, a woman in an orange saree holds a lit firecracker or stick, and beside her a long-haired man in a white kurta and dhoti holds a similar item and looks toward the ground. To the left, a man in a white kurta stands with a small object in hand, while a group of children and adults in white and orange clothing watch from the left. On the far right, a man in a white kurta with an orange shawl stands with his back partly turned, and a woman in white stands near the building. The scene suggests a Diwali celebration with crackers at the ashram.

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