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A woman in a bright orange silk sari with a gold border stands beside a tall copper pillar-shaped lamp stand decorated with red and yellow marigold garlands and topped with a green palm-leaf and white cloth bundle. She holds a small oil lamp with a lit flame in one hand and a brass bowl in the other, smiling as she performs a lamp offering at dusk. She wears a multi-strand beaded necklace, bangles, a red bindi and vibhuti marks on her forehead. Dark trees and a stall with a sign reading Ananda Gallery stand behind her. This is a photo of a lamp ritual, with a ceremonial copper stand in the foreground.

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