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Night photograph of a Deepavali celebration outdoors. Several people stand and crouch near a dark, sandy ground, lighting sparklers that throw bright showers of sparks and drifting smoke. A young woman in white with a braid holds a lit sparkler at center. Another person in white bends forward, lighting firecrackers with a sparkler. A woman in an orange-and-white sari and a girl in a white T-shirt stand at left, and a man in a white shirt and pale trousers stands at right. In the lower left, a person in an orange garment crouches over the ground with burning incense or lamps. No deity image or throne is visible.

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